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This diagram shows how outside sources are used to create reviews, ratings, and aggregated scores about a company’s practices.

When you find an outside source that describes the socially responsible performance of a particular company you may cite that source in a review of that company. Or if someone has already written a relevant review then you can respond to their review discussion thread.

Make sure to tag your review with the particular “interest” (energy efficiency, human rights, etc) so that it can be applied to our model correctly.

This diagram shows how individual ratings (pictured as circles in the top left hand corner) combine to create product scores.

The review ratings of every company that contributes to bringing a product to market are combined within each interest category. The resulting score is describes a product’s performance within that interest category (remember interests are categories like human rights, free market policies, cultural contributions, etc.) Now, let’s say that a shopper wants to find out whether a product performs well on the interests that he or she cares about. The system will compute an average of a product’s scores that is weighted by the interests of the shopper. So the simple number that the shopper receives is based on how a product actually performs.

You can see why we need your help filling out the database! Our model for research is transparent, cooperative and peer reviewed. That means that everything that is published can be traced back to an original source! It also means that we have our work cut out for us. Get started today by rating existing reviews and even writing your own. You are helping us accomplish something truly unique and incredibly powerful.

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