• candyman337@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    I understand cheating is shitty but it would make a lot more sense for the teacher to make this a teachable moment about cheating, and to promote collaborative solutions, but also checking work you get from others.

    A huge part of development is copying code and reusing code from libraries. The important part is that you know how the code you copy works.

  • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    Cheating in academia is the name of the game. There is a survivor bias here assuming the other 78 students didn’t cheat. They’re Learning how to not get caught. Building a better trap may simply yield a better better cheater. The proof ends up being in the work.

    I still think honeypots are amusing AF.

  • zazo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    when a professor does this they’re “based” and “brainpilled” but when I pretend to sell crack on the benches outside, all of a sudden the judge claims it’s “entrapment” and “illegal” smh…

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      At this point I’m only hoping to emerge from the other side of the “based” fad although I’ve never understood what it meant. WTaF is “brain pilled”?

      Groovy. Tubular. Fetch.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 months ago

        Here’s the real answer for based:

        “Based” (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s

        Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following

        As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.

        
        Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." 
        
        Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.
      • Senshi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        Still, cheating to some extent exists everywhere. This just weeds out the real lazy or stupid cheaters. Which is also some kind of quality check, I guess.

        To cheat properly, I’ve has to be a bit clever and shrewd, which is a valuable character trait. Maybe not the most moral one, but real life isn’t all moral either. 🤷‍♂️

        Sometimes the best and most efficient solutions are created by just cleverly combining the work of others.

    • firewood010@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      I hope my Uni had this. I have never cheated, but cheaters sometimes have better grades than me.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        I guess that would harm you if the class is graded on a curve. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be caught and penalized, only that expulsion from the university is a harsh penalty. Automatic failure of the class would hurt plenty, without utterly destroying someone’s life.

        • firewood010@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          It is not harsh. Cheating is immoral and unfair, and every adult knows that. It is in nature a forgery of your degree. Honesty needs to be highly valued and respected. We have cooperations and politicians lying everyday because of this.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      universities take plagiarism very seriously. Friend of mine teaches stage craft (how to make sets, props, costumes, lighting and sound design/planning/execution/engineering)

      First semester, first test, easy pass: Someone pokes their head into the class and my friend goes to the door to answer them, stepping outside for like ~30 seconds

      comes to mark the papers:

      “In a proscenium theater, what is the very front of the stage called?”

      Real answer: apron

      55% of the student answers: the same made up word that sounded vaguely Portuguese with no hits on Google.

      even though it’s super dumb and super easy and barely matters at all and is a one word answer to a basic question - the students ended up being investigated by the university and my friend had all his classes audited.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        I may be dumb, but to clarify: they were assumed cheating because the word was fake, and the only reason for so many duplicated fake answers would be if they shared a faulty answer sheet. Right?

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          yeah, I mean a forgivable wrong answer would be “downstage center” “the front” “the lip” “limelights” “footlights” “wing” “leg” “curtain” “pit” - like close but wrong terminology or similar guesses.

          The fact that loads of them said the same weird wrong answer was very sus.

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    That’s entrapment. If it’s illegal for a cop to make an arrest like that, the professor shouldn’t be able to get people expelled like that.