19 pointsby sbulaev7 hours ago2 comments

nomel4 hours ago
Too bad these universities have no guts, when it comes to punishing cheaters. Too much money in keeping them around.
acbart6 hours ago
Online exams are a pointless waste of time and invasion of privacy, designed to make money without measuring anything. It encourages good people to cheat. If you don't have in-person proctored exams, you are wasting your time.
- gdulli5 hours ago
  Excessive automation is terrible, yes, but also people choose their actions and the accountability stays on them.
  - sharts5 hours ago
    Is it really a failure of automation? This is just improperly validated automation.
    gdulli5 hours ago
    It's a failure of the mindset that now that almost anything can be automated, it will be automated. Often as cheaply and carelessly as possible.
- EA-31675 hours ago
  Nothing and no one forces you to cheat, it's a choice; an admittedly common choice, but then so are a lot of immoral acts like lying and stealing. I'm not saying that online tests are a good idea because we have to live with the sort of people who cheat, but lets not pretend that this turns "good people bad".
  Good people don't need excuses to be good, and don't respond to excuses to be bad... if you want to simplify to that extent.