46 subjects were presented with 25 pairs of grades representing students' performance over the last two semesters. One group was asked to predict the grade for the following semester and another group was asked to predict the grade which occurred preceding the last two semesters. A linear model applied to the data indicated that both groups of subjects weighted the temporally contiguous grade more heavily than the other grade.
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