#10 Sneaky Bias In Grading Performance

Gaston in Beauty and the Beast can’t imagine that Belle is not interested in him.  He is bathed in flattery from Lefou.  The other girls in the “poor provincial town” are “hardly breathing” because he’s such a “tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!”  Gaston still won’t take no for an answer.  The disbelief that he is not the center of her universe causes Gaston to take extreme measures.  When you spend your entire workday in the classroom you know it is impossible to have an ego as distorted as Gaston’s.  But check out what can happen without realizing it.

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