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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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  7. Mark's avatar

Some more “bogus rankings” of philosophy departments

Kolja Keller, a PhD student at the University of Rochester, calls my attention to this site which solicits students to rate their programs by e-mail with an offer of a $5 Starbucks e-card.  The site itself does not reveal how many responses each program received, or how many students from different programs participated in this exercise. 

(About a decade ago, we tried to collect student feedback on programs for the PGR, and it was a disaster for two reasons:  first, some programs lobbied their students to send glowing reports, while for other programs we heard only from one or two people, invariably people who were unhappy, and we had no way of determining whether or not they were representative.)

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