Study finds minority status, social origin, gender, and weight can all count against a German kid's grades

A new study done in more than 14,000 ninth graders in Germany has revealed that students experience grading bias based on their gender, body size, ethnicity and parental socio-economic status. These negative biases stack on each other, meaning that students with multiple intersectional identities get significantly lower grades than their peers regardless of their true abilities.

source https://phys.org/news/2024-07-minority-status-social-gender-weight.html