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Letter: Letter

Published 8 December 2001

From Albert van den Berg

I remember encountering a hypothesis that in school classrooms, everyone gets
nervous when the teacher gives out the marks after a test. The teacher often
begins with the kids whose names start with the letter A. The stress level of
the people with names beginning with Z was kept high longer after each test,
which eventually had a bad influence on the self confidence and academic
performance of those people.

Ijsselstein, the Netherlands

Issue no. 2320 published 8 December 2001

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