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> These students didn't want to study. They didn't want to learn all the answers to the questions that reasonably could have been on the test. Sorry, I have to
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
> These students didn't want to study. They didn't want to learn all the answers to the questions that reasonably could have been on the test.
Sorry, I have to reject these assumptions. One can imagine a stressed student who is attempting to learn from any available resource. This person getting confused by the poisoned material just exposes that they went against school policy by virtue of falling for the trick. There’s no argument for why their intentions were necessarily to avoid the work of learning.
Remove the professor’s assumption that they were adequately tricky with their question trap and perhaps it becomes more obvious. They may have instead just done something which confused an otherwise (if one disregards school policy) innocent student into believing false information.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> any available resource That means they must have used the real study guide too. But despite doing that, they didn't notice any conflicts or otherwise find their way to the right answers for these questions? I might believe that about a couple of the 40.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoI do mean an exceptional amount of stress. Some of the most stressed people I can recall encountering in my life are college students right before finals. I recognize the possibility that 2 of the 40 (really, in this case, just the 1 who’s “right on the bubble”) might be unjustly punished (expulsion) for a lapse in judgement. I also just mean to bring up the possibility; I don’t know what these students’ intentions were but I know what mine might have been. (For what it’s worth, I don’t mean to be arguing the points the person you were responding to is arguing. Many of those are rather weak but there are stronger arguments for a similar conclusion.)