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by jseliger 5265 days ago
The only word missing in your comment is "incentives:" in academia, professors, especially in soft subjects, don't have much of an incentive to grade accurately; they have an incentive to publish "research" that leads to jobs, tenure, and promotion.

If you want professors on the whole to be better and more accurate graders, you have to give them incentives to do so. Which I discuss in more detail here: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/02/grade-inflation-what-grade-in....