How do I know the ratings on a professors page come from students?
Short answer: you don’t. In fact, it’s potentially worse than that… you don’t even know that someone rating a professor, assuming they are a student, which is a huge assumption to make, ever took a professor’s class. Polyratings.com does everything in its power to review questionable postings brought to our attention, but a function of Polyratings’ privacy guarantee is lack of authentication and login. This means that a professor could post positive ratings about themselves to their pages, or negative ratings about other professors (both of which have happened in the past). We have been looking into ways of curbing this practice, but for now, Polyratings users will have to rely on their own judgement in determining which ratings to consider to be accurate; if you think about it, that requirement is no different than information you get from any other source. If you believe a rating comes from a questionable source, please report it.
Short answer: you don’t. In fact, it’s potentially worse than that… you don’t even know that someone rating a professor, assuming they are a student, which is a huge assumption to make, ever took a professor’s class. RamRatings.com does everything in its power to review questionable postings brought to our attention, but a function of RamRatings’ privacy guarantee is lack of authentication and login. This means that a professor could post positive ratings about themselves to their pages, or negative ratings about other professors (both of which have happened on other sites). We have been looking into ways of curbing this practice, but for now, RamRatings users will have to rely on their own judgement in determining which ratings to consider to be accurate; if you think about it, that requirement is no different than information you get from any other source. If you believe a rating comes from a questionable source, please report it.
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