AI Rate Professor

Anthropology

Chris Mercer

ANTH1LAB · ANTHR1LAB · ANTHR1 · ANTHR1L · ANTH1 · ANTHLAB1 · ANTH1L · ANTHRO1LAB · 35 lifetime ratings

AI rating
14/100
RMP rating
1.1/5
Take again
5.71%
Difficulty
4.9

The decision

Avoid; find another anthropology instructor for lecture or lab.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerLecture Heavy LabOffensive JokesTest HeavyMandatory AttendanceToo Much Work for 1 Unit
  • Nearly every review is a 1 with only about 6% take-again interest.
  • 1-unit labs are run as long story-filled lectures with few real labs.
  • and heavy workbook load frustrate students.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

32/100

As are possible with curves and heavy , but and study load is extreme.

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Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

15/100

Students rate difficulty near max and call even 1-unit labs the hardest unit courses they have taken.

All reviews are in person.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

12/100

and and you will not pass.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

8/100

About 6% would take again and almost all comments say hard pass or .

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Strict

35/100

Tests are hard and , but .

Format shift

In-person only.

Workload

Overwhelming

18/100

1-unit labs demand multi-hour lectures, many workbook tasks, exams, and costly .

Format shift

Workload complaints are universal in the in-person set.

Teaching experience

Awful

12/100

Students say he cannot run a lab, talks off-topic, and often offends rather than teaches clearly.

Format shift

In-person only; one outlier positive review is heavily downvoted.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

work and graded-by-few-things tags.

Format shift

In-person only.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

35 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

and lab reviews overwhelmingly describe , and inappropriate personal stories.

Main concern

work for 1 unit and uncomfortable classroom tone.

What students said

“A 1 unit class should have maybe 40 minutes of lecture not 2 hours of story time.”
ANTH1LAB
“He cussed out half the class because .”
ANTH1LAB
“his comments about women and anti-vaccine viewpoints made me dislike him completely.”
ANTHR1LAB

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

but hard to prepare for, and often scaled because averages are low.

Test HeavyCurve on ExamsVague Study GuidancePop Quizzes Mentioned

Assessment risk

Strict

30/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

if taken on time, and students struggle to know what to study.

Hard ExamsCurveLecture-Based TestsExtra Credit Papers
“ and that's because it was hard to nail down what to study for.”
ANTH1
“he had because the average was so low”
ANTH1
“the final which is 2 questions about 10 pages”
ANTH1

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Without a doubt the most difficult 1 unit class that I've ever taken at any of the Peralta campuses.”

Voice snapshots generated from 35 in-person reviews, highlighting fake-lab overload and low recommendation. Credibility rating: High.

🚫 Near-Zero Recommendation

8/100

“ !”

🧪

15/100

“A 1 unit class should have maybe 40 minutes of lecture not 2 hours of story time.”

📚 Extreme Workload

18/100

“Mercer makes you work your ass off for a one unit class that he treats like a three or four unit class.”

😬 Classroom Tone

10/100

“Loves to hear himself talk and makes highly inappropriate and offensive 'jokes'.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • and bad dad jokes
  • Talks about his personal life in his lectures quite a bit
  • he would retell the same stories and rant about his daughters

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • because they are pretty hard
  • Doing all the does increase your grade a whole letter but even thats difficult
  • We started the semester with 30 people... During finals week we had 12 students left

Theme 3

🧪 About the Lab Format

  • Out of 15 classes we only did 2 labs and we never opened our workbooks
  • when we brought this complaint up he said there was no funding for labs
  • lab class isn't really a lab class

Data context

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Analysis sample

35

Recent reviews read by the AI

35

Lifetime ratings

90/100

Evidence confidence

35 recent detailed reviews and low teaching quality.

Inside 35 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 51
4 out of 50
3 out of 50
2 out of 50
1 out of 534

Course coverage

ANTH115 reviews
ANTH1LAB12 reviews
ANTHLAB12 reviews
ANTHR1LAB2 reviews
ANTH1L1 review
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ANTHR11 review
ANTHR1L1 review
ANTHRO1LAB1 review

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

34 reported outcomes

A range

4

A 3 · A- 1

B range

14

B 12 · B- 2

C range

10

C 8 · C- 2

D range

1

D 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

5

Drop/Withdrawal 3 · Rather not say 2