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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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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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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is this on paper? Who would sort them?

*On a program called Canvas

surnames start with A, B, C, D or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points than compared to when they were graded randomly. Likewise, students with later-in-the-alphabet surnames received a 0.3-point lower grade—creating a 0.6-point gap.

Random is always the way to go.