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A Business Idea for Anyone Who Wants It
Steen Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, provides the algorithms he used to detect cheating on standardized tests by teachers at public schools. He suggests that with the No Child Left Behind act there might be a solid business idea in developing software that looks for statistical anomalies in test scores in order to detect cheating.
Teachers might cheat by inflating the scores of their students in order to secure more funding for their school.
- omnipath 19y agoThat is not a very good idea. If money given by government is tied to test scores, schools have more incentive to let students cheat than otherwise, for the high scores. You'd be trying to sell them something that at the very least, lowers overall test score averages.
- alaskamiller 19y agoSo you sell this on the federal level, to let the DoE make sure the state level schools are honest. What's even better, you can charge a lot more because the DoE has a bigger budget.