Best teacher I've ever had, but make one dumb mistake and she'll eviscerate you, wrote a commenter on ratemyprofessor.com. I scrolled through the other comments for Dr. Gelman and found similar sentiments. Her academic page at Ben Gurion University in Be'er-Sheva, Israel was populated with lists and lists of her articles on climate change, and her photo showed a woman in her mid-sixties with leathery olive skin, white streaking her black hair, and a no-nonsense expression.

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