Comments on: Are You Hot or Not?, Academic Style https://personal.ericgoldman.org/are_you_hot_or/ Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eric Goldman https://personal.ericgoldman.org/are_you_hot_or/#comment-179 Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:19:13 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2005/11/are_you_hot_or.html#comment-179 I generally subscribe to the more-info-is-better camp, but additional data is useful only if it’s credible. The problem is when content databases get overwhelmed by junk content, which is inevitable with poorly policed content collection schemes. Eric.

]]> By: Scott Moss https://personal.ericgoldman.org/are_you_hot_or/#comment-178 Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:47:28 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2005/11/are_you_hot_or.html#comment-178 While these sorts of sites aren’t terribly useful, they could be. I’ve heard students at all different schools complain that their professor evaluations aren’t disclosed to students. I happen to think they should be public, mainly because they were public when I was in law school, and that was incredibly helpful; more generally, it is almost always better to have more, not less, information on products and services.

But if students want public evaluations and can’t get them from their schools, why don’t they bypass the schools and use these websites? Get the Student Beer (er, Bar) Association to email every student the RateMyProfessors link at the end of the semester, and try to encourage all students to participate. Then publicize the site to your students around course selection time. Even if you get only 50% participation, that’d be very useful information….

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