Captain Jack wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
> news:4b75c3e5$1@news.povray.org...
>> 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
> 
> 
LOL I understand you.  That certainty that the appearance of 
intelligence cannot possibly be a random result.

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