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> you have little choice I personally disagree with that very hard. Deontology begins at home.
by mariusor 3mo ago
> you have little choice
I personally disagree with that very hard. Deontology begins at home.
- bigstrat2003 3mo agoYep. You always have a choice. If cheating is wrong, it does not become acceptable just because everyone else is doing it.
- gedy 3mo agoAgreed, but it feels like a Pyrrhic victory to not cheat, then get lower scores than the cheaters.
- dgellow 3mo agoAre those exams a contest? Like, they will only take the best N percentiles? Because if not, you’re competing only against yourself and should ignore others’ grades
- em-bee 3mo agoif they are graded on a curve then they are competing against each other.
- 1270018080 3mo ago> Are those exams a contest? Yes
- none2585 3mo agoI did not go to an Ivy League but many of my classes at an alright school were graded on a curve and so C was average, B/D was one standard deviation above/below, and A/F was two.
- ewild 3mo agoIt's an incredibly privileged Pov to say it isn't a contest. These kids entire futures are impacted by these scores.
- wrs 3mo agoWell, not once the scores become meaningless because everyone assumes they cheated.
- ndriscoll 3mo agoIvy League kids tend to not be facing some extreme economic precarity. In fact a decent number of them likely have enough family wealth to not need to work a day in their lives. The others are unlikely to face too much trouble over a few Bs at Brown.
- dgellow 3mo agoI’m literally asking. I haven’t said it’s not a contest
- technothrasher 3mo ago> These kids entire futures are impacted by these scores. Has that changed since I was in school? After I got my degree, not a single person or entity in the workforce ever asked for my grades. They just wanted to see the degree.
- anigbrowl 3mo agoYes they are, that's what 'graded on a curve' means. It's common in the US to give students a percentile or Z-score or T-score rather than the raw score for the examination. This was a source of massive frustration to me when I first encountered because I had no way of self-reviewing my exam performance to guess which questions I might have gotten wrong.