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I'm going to steal this for the ethics class I teach. Heh heh heh.

Of course, I'm still trying to develop a grading curve based on game theory and economics. Given there are only enough points available for 10% of you to get A's, most of you will get B's, and some of you will get C's. OR all of you can work together to get B+'s.

This probably wouldn't work. BUT I think it has possibilities ... Any ideas?

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There is a professor at my university who is known for doing something like this. He says for every exam that if /no one/ writes anything on the exam, everyone in the class will get an A on the exam. But, if one person writes anything on the exam, then he will grade all the exams normally.

Apparently he's never had an entire class leave all their exams blank.

Hehehe. Prisoner's Dilemma, writ large.

That's evil.

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