"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
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>I am marking some 50-question, 4-choice, multiple choice tests. (About 20 
>of them.)  The scores are noticeably low, 50%, 64%, 38%, 44%, 52%,...
> I begin to worry that the marking key I am using may be mismatched with 
> the version of the test I am marking.  After about nine papers marked, 
> just as I am about to review the key against the actual questions,...I get 
> a score of 84%.  I am immediately and intuitively certain the key is the 
> correct one and that this test group is just unusually low scoring.  Is 
> there any science that discusses this sort of phenomena?

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that process is the foundation of all 
modern organized religion.

--
Jack

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