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One of the hallucinated authors is literally named "Jane Doe". Our society is about to become powerfully stupid.

• onetokeoverthe 2y ago
  In legal cases that is how one can choose to remain anonymous. See, there's stuff even geniuses dont know.
  • add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
    That's not relevant to this. It's a direct quote from the work the students handed in.
  • BobaFloutist 2y ago
    Why do you think the previous poster found that name notable? Just because it's inherently funny sounding or something?
• xyst 2y ago
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  • Loughla 2y ago
    DoE is the department of energy. The department of education is ED. I laughed out loud when I saw that McMahon was his pick. A fucking wrestling star for the department of education. This is Idiocracy. Also I laughed because otherwise the fear takes over.
• tzs 2y ago
  "Doe" is actually a real surname, with a few thousand of them in the US. I'd guess that there probably have been people actually named "Jane Doe". I wonder if that causes many problems for them?
  • hackernewds 2y ago
    what sorts of problems do you imagine this causing?
    • tzs 2y ago
      The name is widely used as a placeholder. Here's how Wikipedia describes it [1]: > John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the British and US-American legal system and aside generally in the United Kingdom and the United States when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. I'd imagine that could lead to some difficulties when someone really named Jane Doe has to deal with some system that uses that name as a placeholder. Similar to the way people whose surname is Null sometimes run into problems because of poorly written computer systems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe