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"The majority of cases exposed are plagiarism, the exaggeration of academic credentials and faked research papers, which are endemic in China." This is not jus
by xradionut 14y ago
"The majority of cases exposed are plagiarism, the exaggeration of academic credentials and faked research papers, which are endemic in China."
This is not just a China problem. While researching some various programming challeges, I've encountered quite a few "articles", "blogs" and code-sharing sites with content of dubious and plagiarism nature. It pains me that the majority of the bad "authors' seem to be from certain cultures. This hurts the truly talented and honest people from these cultures/countries.
- thirdtruck 14y agoYour choice to compare academic papers with blogs and snippet sites, specifically on the metric of quality, confounds me. We only expect one of the two groups of information to inform the life-altering (and potentially -ending) recommendations made by trusted physicians. If we're in agreement about a general endemic of misinformation, though, that makes more sense. It does leave me wondering whether we underestimate the error rate of our native cultures' sources, though, due to subsumed experience with targeted fraud protection. In other words, maybe we miss local folly because we already know where not to look?
- xradionut 14y ago"We only expect one of the two groups of information to inform the life-altering (and potentially -ending) recommendations made by trusted physicians. If we're in agreement about a general endemic of misinformation, though, that makes more sense." Corruption and fraud are damaging in all aspects of society. Which occupation does more "damage" to a community/society/culture as a whole? A doctor? A banker? A programmer? A military leader? It depends on the situation.