Maybe a better title would be "People have a funny sense of what is relevant." That is, people have complicated ways of placing value on things. In the case o

Maybe a better title would be "People have a funny sense of what is relevant." That is, people have complicated ways of placing value on things. In the case of scaling the test to 137 points so the average comes out closer to 100 is silly in some ways it satisfies the students conditioning to thinking a 100 is a great score. I find the example sad in several ways (Is the teacher testing to material above what is being taught? Do the students care more about the score than actually learning something? probably...) but wanting a 100 is not irrelevant to the students. I just bought a blue car. The color makes no difference in the performance of the car. That doesn't mean it was irrelevant to me.