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BMC Medical Education BioMed Central Research article Open Access Assessment of examiner leniency and stringency (hawk-dove effect) in the MRCP(UK) clinical examination (PACES) using multi-facet Rasch modelling 1 2 2 IC McManus* , M Thompson and J Mollon Address: 1Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK and 2MRCP(UK) Central Office, 11 St Andrews Place, Regents Park, London NW1 4LE, UK Email: IC McManus* - i.mcmanus@ucl.ac.uk; M Thompson - Margaret.Thompson@rcplondon.ac.uk; J Mollon - Jennifer.Mollon@rcplondon.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 18 August 2006 Received: 24 March 2006 Accepted: 18 August 2006 BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:42 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-6-42 This article is available from: /1472-6920/6/42 © 2006 McManus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: A potential problem of clinical examinations is known as the hawk-dove problem, some examiners being more stringent and requiring a higher performance than other examiners who are more lenient. Although the problem has been known qualitatively for at least a century, we know of no previous statistical estimation of the size of the effect in a large-scale, high-stakes