How you get 'groupthink' in a single person is baffling to me, but then I'm just a neuroscientist who teaches psychiatry /4
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Assessed material, whatever the course, has invariably been run through multiple layers of admin, often over several years /5
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The idea that there's some anti-Brexit aspect, something that's only been a thing for barely a year, is ludicrous /6
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Even if this weren't true, marking assessments is boooooooring! Same essay/exam over and over and over again! You grow to HATE groupthink /7
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Any spark of originality, even if you don't agree with it, you'll feel favourably toward it, maybe even give it points if you can /8
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And "if you can" is relevant, because most places have the assessment process tightly regulated to ensure fairness and accuracy /9
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No need to invoke noble aims: unfairness = unhappy students. Unis desperate to avoid that in these days of hi fees and feedback surveys /10
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Basically there are sooo many things in place to stop markers awarding points based on political leanings, even if they wanted to /11
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Which, let's be clear, the vast majority actively don't. It would just mean more work with substantial risk for zero benefit /12
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Only students utterly disengaged with their courses/realiry could feasibly think their political leanings affect their performance /13
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I think most of us would do literally anything to avoid marking. As if we'd make it more boring by having to care about political views...
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