Students May Get Lower Grades Based on Their Surnames

Having the last name Atkins rather than Williams might mean you get better grades, according to new research.Students with surnames that start with letters earlier in the alphabet tend to get better grades at school than those with surnames that appear later, claims a new study due to be published in the online journal Management Science.

For graders who ranked students Z-A instead, the same pattern was seen, but in reverse, with lower-alphabet students doing better than early-alphabet students.'Our conclusion is this may be something that happened unconsciously by the graders that's actually creating a real social impact,' study author Helen Wang, a researcher at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, said in the statement.

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