<p>What percentage of professors do you think read their ratemyprofessors page?</p>
<p>Can percentages be negative?</p>
<p>i know a few that did, and they found it amusing.</p>
<p>I’ve had a few professors joke about it before, mostly the ones who teach huge classes and have a bunch of negative reviews from people who failed or didn’t do any work. I’m sure most of them have at least looked. I’d be curious if I were a professor.</p>
<p>I’ve only had one professor mention it, and he was really positive about it. He said appreciated the feedback on what he could do better and that he tried to incorporate that in his classes. </p>
<p>Then again, his reviews were almost all glowing, so he really didn’t have anything to be upset about.</p>
<p>100%. </p>
<p>The real question is how many of those glowing ratings are written by the profs themselves or by their friends.</p>
<p>^I second to guesstimate 100%, but probably only 5% even care what their ratings are. Most probably view it for the amusement factor. I would.</p>
<p>Professors don’t waste their precious and limited time writing their own ratings on RateMyProfs, especially since at the vast majority of schools their teaching prowess doesn’t get them tenure.</p>
<p>I had a professor last semester who admitted to going on there on different computers and giving herself high ratings as well as the “Hot” rating… and she def wasn’t hot.</p>
<p>Most of the people who feel inclined to post reviews on ratemyprofessor are those who feel either highly positive or nighly negative about a particular professor, so most professors have pretty similar comments. If I were a prof, I wouldn’t care what people thought. I’d rather rely on the anonymity of the class evaluations at the end of the semester.</p>