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  • I wanted more context than this article offered.

    There is a lot of extra detail in the Wikipedia article.

    The key background points were that this was for a psychology class and the essay’s topic was a research paper about gender typicality in middle school students. Ranting about trans people is pretty far off-topic, but there’s some wiggle room in the grading.

    The key identity-related point is that the instructor is a trans gender grad student and originally gave her a zero. A cis gender person re-graded the essay and also gave it a failing grade, but apparently not a zero. The college is apparently only punishing the trans person, and is completely wiping out the grade for the essay, despite it being re-graded.

    So, it seems this is not only about rewarding a student for writing mindless nonsense due to her Christianity. It’s also strongly about punishing the teacher simply because she is a trans woman.







  • I remember there was this story about a business. I think it was a brokerage. But anyways, they gave out large bonuses at Christmas, thinking that this would encourage employees to work harder.

    But instead, it had the exact opposite effect. The stock brokers worked most of the year, but when it came to December, they basically stopped working because of the bonuses. They knew by around November generally how well they did compared to the other stock brokers, and so they knew what kind of bonus to expect in December.

    The problem was that even if they worked really hard in December, they were unlikely to earn a much bigger bonus, but there was a higher possibility that they’d screw up, which could reduce their bonus by a lot. So, if they worked hard in December, it could only make their bonus go down. So, they didn’t work hard.