As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that’s the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.

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    I wonder just how big of a difference your place in the alphabetic order makes in general, because it appears everywhere in life

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      It was enough for me to change my last name to “Aaaamazing”