if you think cartelism isn't a natural human instinct, i guess you've never experienced any social pressure to stop wrecking a grading curve
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Replying to @chaosprime
true story: at my undergrad school there was a mandatory reading and writing comprehension skills assessment test given school-wide, in addition to usual course exams. test was a short reading sample followed by a written response about it. 1/n
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
test was graded on a simple rubric. scores between 1 (illiterate) and 7 (you're possibly the literal author of the reading sample) from a panel of 5 judges. high and low judge scores are dropped, you pass if your average from remaining 3 is at least a 4. 2/n
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
well, I wasn't the literal author of the reading sample but it was from a book I had previously read (for leisure, on my own initiative) and it was fresh in memory. got 7s from all 5 judges. this literally never happened before afaik 3/n
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
when I got my exam score back it included a hand written note explaining that they had lowered my average score to a 6.2 because they were not allowed to give marks more than 3 standard deviations away from the global mean.
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zomg THE INJUSTICE i don't actually remember when it was that some similar crime was committed against me but the indignance feels so lived-in it must have
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