Bar-Hillel, Maya; Budescu, David; Attali, Yigal - Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University … - 2004
than chance odds. Key balancing is the strategy test-takers adopted for ridding tests of positional biases. We show that … formula scoring and key balancing, though widespread and intuitively appealing, are in fact "irrational" practices. They do … more rational alternatives: Number right scoring is superior to formula scoring, and key randomization is superior to key …