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Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order (phys.org)

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As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that's the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Semi related: I'm studying for a Linux certification and at the end of each chapter they have 10 practice questions with answers in the back of the book. Almost every time, the explanations of the answers get shorter until there's basically just the answer by question 10. It feels like they just got tired of working

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