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Dartmouth medical school accused 17 students of cheating; they found over half of the accused students was due to erroneously generated data. [1] https://www.n
by gzer0 5y ago
Dartmouth medical school accused 17 students of cheating; they found over half of the accused students was due to erroneously generated data.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geis...
- babypuncher 5y agoI think I would rather let a dozen cheaters "get away with it" than let even one innocent person have their academic career damaged by a false positive.
- mountainofdeath 5y agoCheating is like crime. A criminal needs to be right every time to not be caught but enforcement only needs to be right once. Even if you let once instance fall through the cracks, it's very unlikely it's an isolated instance.
- babypuncher 5y agoAcademic cheating also doesn't seem like a sustainable life plan. Even if you get your degree and land a job, what are you going to do when your boss and co-workers realize you don't actually know how to do the things you have a degree in?
- raxxorrax 5y agoYou could stay in academia and contribute to the replication crisis.