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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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
what's the moral of the story? the need to have a cartel manage every aspect of human social life is so strong that it is made formal and inexorable in contexts where they have the authority to do so. you already knew that but thanks for giving me this vehicle to humblebrag /fin
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i am as always pleased to be of service, and really providing such utility makes up somewhat for the rather vicious basic bitch sleight of hand in the OP
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