Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the correct answer was item four it was found that 43 percent answered number one as against 28 percent who chose four. The obvious ambiguity was eliminated so that the question read...
Twenty IBM machines--each capable of marking up to 600 tests on hour--are responsible for all the actual scoring. Machines electrically record the number of right and wrong answers on each paper. Until recently machines merely recorded correct answers but a college board decision to deduct on quarter credit for each mistake necessitated the change...
...through the marking of more that one of the numbered answers. Such offenders fall into categories. The first, or "naive" group, will blacken all five of the answer spaces. The second type, a little shrewder, will darken one of the blanks, while placing tiny dots, which will register as correct on the machine, in one or two of the other four' spaces...
...quarterly Archaeology, a plausible solution came from an amateur: a young (31) London architect named Michael Ventris. It so happened that as a schoolboy of thirteen, Ventris heard a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans, has been fascinated by the Minoan mystery ever since. If his present solution is correct, scholars will not only have to rewrite the history of Crete, they will also have to change their ideas about the civilization of the pre-Homeric Greeks...
...these claims are false, Mr. McCarthy owes the Marine Corps an apology ... If the claims are true, the V.F.W. post at Stoughton, Wis. owes Mr. McCarthy an apology. Information as to which party is correct should be printed in your magazine...