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Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s...
But the fate of Mfume's social initiatives proved less successful and were emblematic of an identity crisis within the group. "We have all this money to spend, but I don't feel like the N.A.A.C.P. is effective as a civil rights organization," says Michael Meyers, a former assistant director...
What's more, the closer experts look at how doctors actually diagnose high blood pressure, the more they think they've been grading on a too generous curve. Traditionally, readings between 120/80 and 140/90 have been labeled borderline, less likely to require drugs or other intervention. Now the NHLBI believes...
Conley says that the committee is leaning towards grading on a pass/fail basis only and is designing the semester in order to maximize student flexibility.
Such benign bias has its limits, of course. Professors should always question their students, but never heckle them or mock them. Students should not feel, in general, that they cannot get good grades without abandoning their true political views. But the number of cases of biased grading practices on account...