Students with the initial “A” don’t get better grades |
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Authors: | BD McCullough Thomas P McWilliams |
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Institution: | a Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States |
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Abstract: | It has been claimed that students whose first or last name begins with the letters A or B have higher grade point averages than students whose first or last name begins with the letters C or D. We critique the analysis behind this claim, raising a number of issues that lead us to question the validity of the claim. We also test for a relation between student initial and GPA using two new datasets and find no evidence to support such a relation. |
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Keywords: | Name-letter effect Implicit egotism |
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