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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Muslim judges are more likely to give lenient decisions while fasting during Ramadan, a study said Monday, contrasting to previous research suggesting that judges who have not eaten give harsher rulings. In what has been dubbed "the hungry judge effect", a 2011 study found that judges in Israel…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Male school inspectors are more likely to award higher Ofsted grades than female inspectors when inspecting similar primary schools, according to new research by UCL and the University of Southampton. Released today as an academic working paper, the study examines the Ofsted grades awarded by…