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How Not to Get Into Grad School
The law of below averages also applies to students trying to hire hackers to change their GPA.
Hat tip to MetaFilter.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on December 21, 2006 at 05:20 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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That was pretty hilarious
Posted by: andrew at Dec 21, 2006 7:58:52 PM
I presume Alex's point on the previous post, about not trying to detect and never punishing exam cheaters, was an example of that old American irony that we Brits have such a hard time detecting.
Here in the UK we are experiencing a national epidemic of cheating both at high school and at colleges - triggered (IMO) by the shift to examination methods where it is easy to cheat and impossible to detect cheating.
By contrast, thirty years ago I went through high school and medical school without doing an examination where it was easy to cheat: they were all formal, supervised, unseen exams - including some viva voce exams.
I wonder why we changed?
Posted by: Bruce G Charlton at Dec 22, 2006 2:05:57 AM
I assume that lyger is busily using Todd's SSN and DOB to open credit accounts in Todd's name?
-dk
Posted by: Dick King at Dec 22, 2006 2:21:04 AM
In reference to the Law of Below Averages, I just wanted to point out that the worst feeling the world is having a legitimate "excuse" not to turn something in, feeling really bad about missing the work in the first place, and the teacher shoving it off/not believing/not responding. I understand that a lot of these are fake, and one commenter wrote that an excuse would be a "grandmother dying," but it's unfair to assume falsity, even if there are multiple excuses in one semester by the same student. This happened to me this past semester. My best friend passed away in a car accident, and I just sent off a short email to my professors telling them I was going away and why. One of my teachers did not respond, then even after explaining in person why I had missed his paper and wasn't in class, on my transcript that I just received there was no leniency. I was graded harshly for turning in the paper late and missing several classes.
Posted by: V. anon at Dec 22, 2006 4:06:03 AM
Ol Todd sounds like he's well qualified for politics -- send an number of emails asking hackers to work for him and THEN (after he's caught) deny that he wanted to do it (no evidence of that), say that his actions were " greatly out of character" (ditto -- over three weeks!), and then blame the hackers ("A solicitation was made but no action was performed," he told me. "These are people misrepresenting themselves for a laugh."). What a jerk -- uh, I mean -- natural for political office.
Posted by: David Zetland at Dec 22, 2006 1:46:11 PM
"Ol Todd sounds like he's well qualified for politics"
He sure does:
http://www.legistorm.com/person/Shriber_Todd_J/11824.html
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