Some appeared to pick answers randomly.
Students tend to pick answers which sound the most complex or sophisticated and will sometimes favor one answer before they refer back to the passage, subsequently falling victim to confirmation bias when they see a part of the passage germane to the choice they selected arbitrarily.
If you picked answer "C" -- Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Congress -- well done.
This occurred despite specific attention from the study team to ensure appropriate instructions were in bold, such as 'answer each question if possible and try not to spend too long over your answers but pick the answer that first comes to mind'.
In his December 1999 report, Mr. Stancik accused Ms. Ballantine, a seventh grade teacher at Intermediate School 450 in the East Village, of "major transgressions," including directing children to check their answers during the test or "pick another answer".
They may approach questions asking when an event occurred as requiring a precise answer that they either know, in which case they chose the correct answer, or they do not know, in which case they randomly pick an answer.
"So if forced to pick an answer, women seem to know as much as men".
Simply pick one answer from each item below, et voila, you will have your very own, deeply personal, instant New York tale.
Voters weren't asked to name an issue that mattered to them; they were asked, in what is known in polling as a "closed-ended question," to pick one answer out of seven.
Pick your answer, and you'll immediately be told whether or not you were correct.
