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Impressive feat. Too bad the class wasn't in Game Theory, that would've been even more isomorphic than the Harvard Intro to Congress class incident. EDIT: Isom

by oskarth 14y ago

Impressive feat. Too bad the class wasn't in Game Theory, that would've been even more isomorphic than the Harvard Intro to Congress class incident. EDIT: Isomorphic used in the sense of the event ("boycott", cheating) being similar in form/geist to the class taken. I'm sure there's a better word for it.

mrdmnd 14y ago
I'm not sure you know what isomorphic means.
- WiseWeasel 14y ago
  *quickly looks up the definition of 'isomorphism'* Definitions of isomorphism: Find isomorphisms at great prices! Wait, that's not one... strangely makes me want to click through though. 1. Biology: Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry. 2. Mathematics: A one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets such that the result of an operation on elements of one set corresponds to the result of the analogous operation on their images in the other set. 3. Chemistry: A close similarity in the crystalline structure of two or more substances of similar chemical composition. Yep, definitely some questionable usage there.
- alex-g 14y ago
  There's a story about a student (in group theory) being asked "Are G and H isomorphic?" and replying "G is isomorphic, but H isn't".
scott_s 14y ago
Another reporting of the incident (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boycott-final-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get#ixzz2KnL9ysqU http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boyco...) actually explains some of the student logic: Andrew Kelly, a student in Fröhlich’s Introduction to Programming class who was one of the boycott’s key organizers, explained the logic of the students' decision via e-mail: "Handing out 0's to your classmates will not improve your performance in this course," Kelly said. This is actually not an interesting problem from the game theory perspective: defection gains you nothing. That is, if you're the only person who defects, your situation is the same if no one had defected. I'm assuming here that the grade curving is local to the assignments. Handing out zeroes to your classmates will help if your overall number of points goes up, and overall number of points in the class determines final grade.
omaranto 14y ago
'appropriate', 'apt', or 'fitting' would have been better than 'isomorphic'.

by oskarth 14y ago

mrdmnd 14y ago

I'm not sure you know what isomorphic means.

WiseWeasel 14y ago
*quickly looks up the definition of 'isomorphism'* Definitions of isomorphism: Find isomorphisms at great prices! Wait, that's not one... strangely makes me want to click through though. 1. Biology: Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry. 2. Mathematics: A one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets such that the result of an operation on elements of one set corresponds to the result of the analogous operation on their images in the other set. 3. Chemistry: A close similarity in the crystalline structure of two or more substances of similar chemical composition. Yep, definitely some questionable usage there.
alex-g 14y ago
There's a story about a student (in group theory) being asked "Are G and H isomorphic?" and replying "G is isomorphic, but H isn't".

scott_s 14y ago

Another reporting of the incident (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boycott-final-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get#ixzz2KnL9ysqU http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boyco...) actually explains some of the student logic: Andrew Kelly, a student in Fröhlich’s Introduction to Programming class who was one of the boycott’s key organizers, explained the logic of the students' decision via e-mail: "Handing out 0's to your classmates will not improve your performance in this course," Kelly said. This is actually not an interesting problem from the game theory perspective: defection gains you nothing. That is, if you're the only person who defects, your situation is the same if no one had defected. I'm assuming here that the grade curving is local to the assignments. Handing out zeroes to your classmates will help if your overall number of points goes up, and overall number of points in the class determines final grade.

omaranto 14y ago

'appropriate', 'apt', or 'fitting' would have been better than 'isomorphic'.