Personal anecdote; I remember taking a standardized test, can't remember if it was SAT or CSAT (Colorado pre-SAT test). This was at a time when I'm confident t

Personal anecdote; I remember taking a standardized test, can't remember if it was SAT or CSAT (Colorado pre-SAT test). This was at a time when I'm confident that humans were the graders. I started with an intro that would be appropriate for a standard 5 paragraph essay; i.e. the thing you write when you don't know what you're talking about and you're just following a format. In the third paragraph I took a leaf from family guy, and just interjected "WAFFLES, NICE CRISPY WAFFLES, WITH LOTS OF SYRUP." for the next page and a half, I berated the very foundation of the essay prompt, insulting it the way only an angst ridden early teen can. ... I got a 98% on the essay. Fast forward several years. I write an essay for for an introductory college course final. My paper is returned to me with a coffee stain and a "94% - good work!" note scribbled on the top. That note was scribbled by a TA that would turn out to be my girlfriend for 2 years. One night in bed, she tilts her laptop to me, showing an article that I used as the central theme to the above essay; "can you believe this?" "Are you joking? Of course I can believe this, it was the subject of the essay you gave me an A on 2 years ago" She admits she didn't read past the first paragraph of anything she grades, and just bases grades on intuition based on how articulate the essays are at the outset. ... The point I'm making: Does AI suck at judging the amount of informative content in a student essay? YES Do humans suck at judging the amount of informative content in a student essay? ALSO YES