Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins
The UK’s Institute of Physics is calling on the popular press to ditch the term “boffin” when referring to scientists.
Commissioned by the IOP and conducted by Censuswide, the survey also found that more than a third of all respondents had never heard of the term “boffin”, while 18-24-year-olds are nearly 80 percent more likely to view it as an insult than a compliment. The implication was that the pictures of wild-eyed elderly men being run together with the word was the reason behind the association with the male gender.
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