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We know we get reviewed anyway. What we're pushing back against is these reviews getting turned into yet another semi-useless, noisy and biased metric we're ev
by Fomite 8y ago
We know we get reviewed anyway.
What we're pushing back against is these reviews getting turned into yet another semi-useless, noisy and biased metric we're evaluated by.
You want to recommend for/against a class to your friends? Don't care. What I'm not interested in is my dean pretending there's deep insight there.
- paulie_a 8y agoI can understand that perspective about being used as a metric to the dean, but as a student I would have loved access to that info. It's kind like any other review system, a couple of bad reviews among many high reviews, you take that into account. but a lot of bad reviews, I'm probably going to avoid that professor, restaurant, product, service etc. It should not be used as precise metric of performance, but as a general trend overall. Instead of one friend giving a bad review for whatever reason, now I have access to the hundreds of bad experiences or the 99/100 good experiences. As a student I really don't care about the dean professor relationship. I am a paying customer of the institution. I want to know if that professor is worth taking their class. Also if you don't care about students giving praise/negative reviews to a friend, that kind of says something.
- Fomite 8y ago> Also if you don't care about students giving praise/negative reviews to a friend, that kind of says something. Note I didn’t say I didn’t care what those reviews were. Honestly, they’re probably more nuanced than student Evans and thus more useful in choosing classes.
- paulie_a 8y agoI misunderstood what you meant, my apologies.