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Originally posted by hiredgun
I would assume that those who published the report that wilbjammin referenced controlled for that possibility by isolating classrooms in which students had no choice on where to sit (thereby eliminating self-selection as a confounding factor).
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I wouldn't assume that. I've seen so many studies published with poor/no controls. Ugh! Regardless, your suggestion for proper controls was a good one.
Has anyone actually seen any empirical evidence from properly controlled studies for the alphabetical order of last names being correlated with grades?