We graded similarly, incidentally, when I was at U-of-M (lol). I don’t think we ever sorted by name so I don’t know if we’d have a bias effect by name unless it

We graded similarly, incidentally, when I was at U-of-M (lol). I don’t think we ever sorted by name so I don’t know if we’d have a bias effect by name unless it’s an implicit bias towards lexicographical esthetics. I won’t deny that grading fatigue can have subjective effects. I always thought we did a pretty fair and objective job. I taught Computer Architecture and we we developed answer keys and grading scales before grading a single test. Of course assigning partial credit always ended up being pretty subjective. Typically though people would error in the same ways and so those would be subjectively identical. I never thought names factored into this much but, to be fair, no one ever collected data… Finally, I guess I’ll admit that I’m probably very biased because my initials as A.B. and I’ve always gotten excellent grades, so… maybe maybe maybe