Professor or Hobo? Take the quiz!

Depends on the 'department', in my experience. Not that that is anything but anecdotal. In a med research and clinic environment, back in the day, none of the senior faculty, post docs, blah blah, were exceptionally out there, um, visually. In my art and design acad years, some were tres cool and some scruffbottoms, but none of them hobo-ey, and my local to that school town had/has still even though I'm not there, a large vagrant population, being liberal and by the sand and sea, to cite as a comparison. Still, I only got six!

I trust academe varies, re "what's going on" in cultural mores, the location of the school, the amount of public dealings the prof has, and weirder stuff, like who the new prof admired or despised along the way, sort of similar to parental modeling or parental rejection. Then there may be a nagging wife or husband who wants spouse to get ahead, so that we have a shaver or preppy dresser who on his or her own would forego some 'presentable' traits.

On the quiz, I went astray thinking a guy that looked quite bright (and what is that look, exactly?) also looked a tad mad (the eyes).

My eye doc in northern california was an avid mushroom enthusiast.
You're talking to a scaredy cat, but I'd trust her. Oh, and farmerman.

I think you're winning at this point.

9/10.

I looked at their eyes, and their background, but mostly W.A.G.

I missed #5, the "professor of computer science at a Californian university."

Yep, that seems about right.

E.G. also way overestimated how many were professors (he did know the one guy personally though).

I'm too sceptical and dismissed at least some of the backgrounds as herrings.

7/10
Tried to look at the background.
The one with a St. Olaf T-shirt was too easy to pick as a professor.

I got 8/10 - I mistook the hobo with the hat for a professor - the hat looked stylish and expensive - and I mistook the professor who looked like Santa for a hobo.
I looked at their expressions - some of them looked rather sad - and I figured that might mean they were homeless. When I looked again at the solutions - I realized I'd overlooked the confident smile Santa was wearing and mistook him for a hobo- if I'd followed my general rule - I'd have gotten 9/10.

The young St. Olaf professor looks JUST like my nephew - but with more hair. My nephew just got his undergraduate degree in English and wants to go on and be a professor.

The young professor with the glasses looks just like my first boyfriend who is now a professor of computer science , so in terms of those two I had associations to help give me a clue.