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As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that’s the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.
Yes, you assume the early submitters are on top of it and do better work.
And, even as one who rarely submitted assignments early, IMO it’s fair to give the early submissions the advantage of marking fatigue bias. Kinda like a time bonus.