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I disagree. It shows that the original test taker was less likely to be cheating than a lower scoring person and the system was at more likely to be at fault.
by jjallen 3y ago
I disagree. It shows that the original test taker was less likely to be cheating than a lower scoring person and the system was at more likely to be at fault.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoNot really, since if you don’t trust their account of the story in the first place (that they didn’t cheat), why would you trust that part? It adds nothing. You should immunize yourself to devices like this having any impact for the same reason you should immunize yourself to cheap devices like “I normally hate X but” and “as an X, I think that” in other online comments.
- Mordisquitos 3y agoI don't understand the '99th percentile' aside as a way to convince HN readers that the commenter wasn't cheating. Rather, I take it as an expression of personal pride (in the positive sense) that there was such incontrovertible evidence that the commenter had no need to cheat in the first place, told with the satisfying (but probably unrealised) hope that the people who unjustifiably accused the commenter of cheating were later aware of the top marks he or she achieved after taking the exam in person.
- Tempest1981 3y agoMore humble but still making the point: "I scored well on the test"