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October 25, 2006
Ratemyprofessor.com
While I was studying for midterms and typing papers in Nord, one of my friends sat next to me and told me to read what he posted on a site called "Ratemyprofessor.com" which is a review site, founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, that allows college students to assign ratings to professors of American, Canadian, British, Irish, New Zealand, and Australian institutions. It's almost like the course evaluations we receive at the end of each semester that go into the online rankings for the registrar. However, the professor ratings on ratemyprofessor.com are a lot more detailed, and sometimes more profane.
There are a lot of criticisms on how the site is managed. Among these are the fact that one person can post multiple ratings and heavily skew a professor's rating. Also, there is response bias. Most raters only use the site because they feel strongly one way or another. Because of that, professors are usually only ranked very highly or very lowly.
Posted by meb40 at October 25, 2006 11:51 PM
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