> > This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students. > It's not just "culturally alien"; it's a straight-up e

> > This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students. > It's not just "culturally alien"; it's a straight-up error. Perhaps an exaggerated example will illustrate. Students are assigned by a lottery system that sometimes allows pairs (or triplets, etc) of students to have a beneficial trade. Then students are permitted to use dutch-school-trading.com to swap schools. Except that students who own computers are permitted to engage in this extra round of trading while students who do not own computers are not. Some consider this to be biased against students who don't own a computer. In reality, it's not the single factor of "owns a computer" which is at play, but multiple issues including social connectedness, strategic thinking, free time on the day the placements are published, and so forth.