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Just because the essays are auto graded doesn’t mean no human will ever see them. It takes far far longer to grade an essay than it does to skim 3 sentences ran

• Drakim 8y ago
  That will stop people from just copy-pasting one statement over and over again. But, it will still create a meta game of trying to write machine learning likable texts as opposed to good texts.
  • macNchz 8y ago
    It was already a bit of a game in 2005 when I took the ‘new’ SAT which included an essay component. Research from the same professor Perelman quoted in this article had shown that longer essays were graded more favorably (by overworked humans I believe), so I made sure to fill the whole space at the expense of quality writing, and got a perfect score. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-test-rewards-length-and-ignores-errors.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-te...
• stakhanov 8y ago
  You're totally missing the point. The existence of cheating strategies implies that there's something wrong. The thing that's wrong is not the cheating. What's wrong is that when an examiner has the power to severely diminish a student's prospects for future educational and career development, you would expect that examiner to be someone whose academic standing is way in advance of the student's, not someone whose intelligence is short of human.