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This guy pissed me off enough to write this comment. Classical fear tactics. By offering a level of "immunity" for those who come forward, he's creating fear f
by sfaruque 16y ago
This guy pissed me off enough to write this comment.
Classical fear tactics. By offering a level of "immunity" for those who come forward, he's creating fear for those who actually did cheat.
Look at what he's offering to those who come forward:
"Any permanent record of this will be wiped from your transcripts. There will be no further action taken."
Then he goes on to taking a reverse psychological approach by saying:
"You want to take a high risk gamble, take it! I challenge you to take it…."
What he essentially did was scare the students into believing that his statistical analysis would be enough to expel them from college.
Sure, matching previous student batch's midterm results vs. current batch of midterm grades gives an insight. If you further compared that with the students other grades of similar subjects, then it is statistically possible to say that there's an anomaly present.
As far as I know (maybe the rules has changed since I went to college), you can't get kicked out of school because the administrators believe that it is statistically possible that you cheated.