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If you had a multiple choice quiz with the actual questions hidden you would get a normal distribution in results. Anything where you sum lots of small random effects.

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If the test was not measuring anything at all, then you would expect repeat takers to have completely unrelated scores on first and last test.

That's true, I'm just pointing out that the normality of the distribution of the results alone proves nothing.

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