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candidate · p2026-09-06-130 · reject-definition

Ofqual A-level standardisation, August 2020 (~40% of grades downgraded)

set aside as
DEFINITION REJECTS
the researcher's note
Ofqual A-level standardisation, August 2020 (~40% of grades downgraded): borderline but rejected — a hand-designed statistical adjustment applied to historical school grade distributions, not a procedure fitted to data. Worth re-testing with the technical report.
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2020-2023
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2020-2023.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00 · researcherreject-definition — Ofqual A-level standardisation, August 2020 (~40% of grades downgraded): borderline but rejected — a hand-designed statistical adjustment applied to historical school grade distributions, not a procedure fitted to data. Worth re-testing with the technical report.
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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