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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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
so "the curve" and all its implications are baked in to the education cartel at an institutional level. the grade penalty was meaningless and had no impact on my life, so I wasn't upset. I laughed a lot though. 5/n
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many congratulations on your being Not Mad But Laughing Actually, it is definitely not anything i pulled off in whatever mysterious context
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