We will hear more from these raters as to why they got it wrong.
Then add the fact that since the 1970s, credit raters have been compensated by bond issuers.
Credit raters get paid directly by the people upon whom they issue an opinion.
Handshake raters, who did not reveal their purpose, were introduced to students and shook their hands.
But everyone already knows the big credit raters get paid to issue their opinions.
In another study, long and medium-length hair improved male raters' evaluation of female subjects' health.
Credit raters too often have all the independent thought of tech analysts circa 1999.
Of course, all the raters and bankers were more than just too smart for their own good.
He ladles praise on correspondents only to dismiss them in letters to others as gorgons or third-raters.
The credit raters are free to issue whatever opinions they want, of course.
Thus, there is further incentive, though widely unspoken, for raters to play ball.
The way these raters go about their work has always been a mystery.
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By late in the year, the major credit-raters said much of Europe was likely to suffer ratings downgrades as well.
This may be why the SEC, which had been investigating the credit raters, is not part of this week's lawsuit.
The raters' disastrous record in evaluating the soundness of packages of mortgage-backed securities and other exotic financial instruments is well known.
Raters generally gave favorable evaluations to students who traveled, had more friends and showed a wide range of hobbies and interests.
After the interviews, the hiring managers scored how well the job seekers performed and the handshake raters graded the handshakes separately.
Moody's and other debt-raters have cast a worried eye over the market, placing subprime deals on watch for a possible downgrade.
In an experiment, three "raters" comprising one university professor and two students were presented with the Facebook profiles of 56 college students with jobs.
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management had the most raters, with 71.
The raters can point to numerous cases where they have upset clients.
The takeaway is, pay more attention to raw scores than percentiles, they give you a better window into what raters are thinking about you.
Schools with fewer than nine corporate raters weren't eligible for ranking.
Based on this small sampling of behaviors, raters were able to accurately predict how students would evaluate those same teachers at the end of the course.
Yet there are those who still, however quaintly, think that politicians are the solution to something more than how to allow second raters to gain power over us.
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Only one of the charges against the credit raters really sticks: that by centralising ratings in New York or London, they tend to miss developments on the ground.
According to one Leapforce job ad there are 1, 500 raters.
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According to the association, film raters consider smoking in this broader context, and they also consider how frequent, glamorized, or historically relevant it is (as in period pieces, for instance).
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