College exams oftentimes include a bonus question or two at the end. For students of an online psychology class at The University of Maryland, one professor asked the hardest question of all:
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For those of you reading on a small screen, the question is:
Here you have the opportunity to earn some extra credit on your final paper grade. Select whether you want 2 points or 6 points added onto your final paper grade. But there’s a small catch: if more than 10% of the class selects 6 points, then no one gets any points. Your responses will be anonymous to the rest of the class, only I will see the responses.
So, how would you answer? Do you think you can risk it and go for the 6? Or are you surrounded by other greedy fuckers who will also go for the 6? What if you go for the 2 and no one else goes for the 6? That is just leaving good points on the table for no reason!
According to the class’s professor, Dylan Selterman, he has been including the extra question at the end of exams since 2008 and only one time did it actually work out for the class.
As for this year, the class got zero extra points as 20 percent of the class chose the six points.
