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Re:Big Data Is Dead by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:43PM (#34697108)
Teachers assign better scores to papers with better penmanship. I forget how strong the effect was, but using a keyboard does help equalize some biases.
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by albert_e on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:06PM (#34697499)
Keyboards and screens in an exam hall then?
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by MonkeyMalarky on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:04PM (#34697465)
Typewriters for everyone!
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:19PM (#34697781)
Why equalize that bias?
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by slaymaker1907 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:29PM (#34699980)
Because there are a plethora of disabilities which make neat penmanship difficult.
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by politician on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:17PM (#34697732)
Scan the hand-written work back into a digital format and present the results to the teachers for evaluation in their preferred typeface.
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