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Submission + - Study: Alphabetical order of surnames may affect grading (umich.edu)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade. An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases and the default order of students’ submissions in Canvas — the most widely used online learning management system — which is based on alphabetical rank of their surnames.

What’s more, the researchers found, those alphabetically disadvantaged students receive comments that are notably more negative and less polite, and exhibit lower grading quality measured by post-grade complaints from students.

Comment Sure, let someone else be the gatekeeper (Score 5, Informative) 162

by 0xG (#64407632) Attached to: Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts

to you own computer.

My wife - who tends to always forget her password - has a windows 11 laptop.
Microsnot wanted her to fill in a multi-page application form, mail it to microsnot, and wait two weeks(!) for them to provide a reset. I was dumbfounded. To access your own computer!

Fortunately, i had created local accounts when it was new, because i knew that would happen.

Submission + - Dual standards at YouTube expose viewers to scams

Submitted by NewtonsLaw
NewtonsLaw writes: Almost everyone knows of at least one YouTube channel that has been unfairly demonetized or even entirely deleted by YouTube for nothing more than an allegation of "misleading" or "misinformation". The corporation claims that it does this to keep users of the platform safe.

However, this standard is almost never applied to advertisers, as witnessed by
this video which has also been running as a pre-roll/mid-roll ad recently and falsely offers access to Netflix, PrimeTV, Disney+ and Hulu without any monthly subscription.

Both the ad and the video that is played during the ad have been reported to @teamyoutube on X and via the report functions on the website but it continues to run and it will likely continue to do so until the advertiser has spent their budget.

This kind of hypocrisy does not endear the platform to its "partners" and also leaves happless users vulnerable to scams such as this.

The official response from @teamyoutube is simply that they investigate all reports — yet this is just the latest in a long list of ads for scam products such as free energy generators, drones that claim premium features but turn out to be toys and other products that are nothing like those being advertised.

Submission + - UK to deploy facial recognition over shoplifting (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: The UK is hyperventilating about stories of shoplifting — though standing outside a shop and watching as a guy calmly gets off his bike, parks it, walks in and walks out with a pack of beer and cycles off — and then seeing staff members rushing out — was striking. So now it's throwing technical solutions at the problem...

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