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Is anyone confused by "lower-ranked names"? To me this means A, B, C, but the article says "Wang said students whose surnames start with A, B, C, D or E receiv
by xmddmx 2y ago
Is anyone confused by "lower-ranked names"? To me this means A, B, C, but the article says "Wang said students whose surnames start with A, B, C, D or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points than compared with when they were graded randomly."
So I guess "alphabetically lower ranked" means the last letters of the alphabet, not first? Confused.
- samatman 2y agoThis is an important observation! The programmer's perspective and the user's perspective aren't always the same, and both need consideration. A user is going to see a list: it starts at the top, and it ends at the bottom. The first fields are higher, the later fields are lower. Of course, if this is a sorted list, the first field will be the "lowest" value, for whatever comparison is used to sort it.
- ghaff 2y agoYeah, I misunderstood this at first and then was somewhat confused by the comments until I actually clicked through and looked that the post. :-) I can actually believe the effect going in either direction and it's small.
- pks016 2y agoYes, while grading we divide the students by their last names.