Perverse Incentive?
From Marginal Revolution:
Also, don't miss the title of this post.
Can you combine tragedies? If your parents and an uncle are killed in a car crash do you get 14%? What if you go out and buy 50 hamsters and a boa constrictor? Does that count? Is this list comprehensive? What if you get dumped right before finals? What if Brett Favre retires? Or Arrested Development is canceled? Some people would find these events to be extremely traumatic.
This is ridiculous. There is one positive though. Now they can make a sequel to Dead Man on Campus, starring Zack Morris.
Ow, that gave me a headache. (Woohoo! An extra 1%!)
A system giving students extra marks if they have suffered personal trauma is being defended by an exams authority.
GCSE and A-level pupils in England are given 5% more if a parent dies close to exam day or 4% for a distant relative.
They get 2% more if a pet dies or 1% if they get a headache.
Also, don't miss the title of this post.
Can you combine tragedies? If your parents and an uncle are killed in a car crash do you get 14%? What if you go out and buy 50 hamsters and a boa constrictor? Does that count? Is this list comprehensive? What if you get dumped right before finals? What if Brett Favre retires? Or Arrested Development is canceled? Some people would find these events to be extremely traumatic.
This is ridiculous. There is one positive though. Now they can make a sequel to Dead Man on Campus, starring Zack Morris.
Ow, that gave me a headache. (Woohoo! An extra 1%!)
posted by PaulNoonan at
9:35 AM
3 Comments:
Wow
By
Pope Benedict XVI, at 9:57 AM
Zack Morris should never be in the same room as a bong. That movie floored me.
Whatever happened to "There's No Hope With Dope" Zack? Fuckin' Johnny Dakota.
As for this new policy, that's just simply ridiculous for about a million reasons.
By
Ace Cowboy, at 10:02 AM
Thanks for the link!
With an ant farm you wouldn't need to take the exam at all!
By
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, at 1:40 PM
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