Your raise valid points. But I think they only apply in contexts where people realize cheating is going on (Patrascu was an outlier claiming it publicly, but h

Your raise valid points. But I think they only apply in contexts where people realize cheating is going on (Patrascu was an outlier claiming it publicly, but he was an outlier in many things) and also your grading is done on a relative scale (which I think is much worde than an absolute one, where one's better grade doesn't imply another person's lower grade). > Patrascu may have been a brilliant researcher, but was he as brilliant as the person who didn't make the cut because he made the cut instead? I would love it if he were among us to give on of his characteristically snarky answers :D [1] He would probably have said something along the lines of "not as brilliant, more brilliant; which the fact that the other poor chap who wasn't capable of cheating clearly shows". [1] https://infoweekly.blogspot.com/2010/11/complexity-theory.html?showComment=1290207509494&m=1#c4652769505772552012 https://infoweekly.blogspot.com/2010/11/complexity-theory.ht...