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ID: LSAT-LR-061
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Point at Issue
Difficulty level: Medium

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Ferreira: Examinations should be marked without the marker knowing whose paper it is. A marker who knows the candidate cannot help being influenced by what he knows, however hard he tries.

Blunt: He can, and the evidence is that markers who know their candidates and markers who do not produce the same distribution of marks. What anonymity removes is not the bias but the suspicion of it -- which is worth removing, and is a different thing from what you are claiming for it.

Ferreira and Blunt disagree over whether

Aexamination papers should be marked independently by more than one person before a candidate's mark is settled

Bmarking examinations anonymously is a practice worth adopting, and examining bodies would do well to make it their rule

Cthe suspicion that examiners' marking is biased is itself a problem, and one worth the trouble of addressing

Dmarkers who know their candidates produce the same distribution of marks, taken across a whole cohort, as markers who have never met any of the candidates whose papers they mark

Emarking examinations anonymously changes the marks that candidates receive, rather than only what is believed about them

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