A small observation on algorithmic marking

We’ve been told, vociferously, that the use of a central system to measure and adjust exam grades is entirely the wrong thing to be doing. Instead those with the local knowledge, the teachers, should pass on what they know to the rest of us.

The insistence upon this largely coming from those who insist that those with the local knowledge of the economy, those who participate in it, cannot be allowed to pass on what they know to the rest of us through the price system. That must be centrally directed even, possibly, by algorithm.

One wonder is why this is so, another is that none of those insisting upon both would even acknowledge, let alone understand, the observation.