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UMD 'tragedy of the commons' tweet goes viral
When Shahin Rafikian, a rising junior at the University of Maryland, College Park, first saw the extra credit question on his final online Social Psychology paper, he was intrigued by the prospect of extra points. But he was confronted with a dilemma. "Select whether you want 2 points or 6 points...
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Huh, that was a bit of pleasant reading. And yeah, it figures that everyone would assume someone else is going to take the fall for the team, that You and a select few are unique enough to take extra, at least this time.
I would take the larger under the assumption that others will too and we'd all get nothing. I'd rather have everyone get zero then I get 2 while some lucky ones get 6. I feel like that's pretty spiteful and I don't like that in myself, but I also believe in equality and don't like the inherent unfairness of some getting more than others.
The professors willing to play with grading were always my favorite in school. There is so many factors involved with grading, and so many implicit assumptions when a teacher goes with the default straight percentage. It may be a coincidence, but the professors who were most willing to try other grading possibilities, the ones who came up with the most out there ideas for it, were the ones I took the most away from the classes.