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To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
Is this a first? It certainly makes sense at Yale, which has philosophically-minded psychologists like Paul Bloom and psychologically-minded philosophers like Joshua Knobe and Laurie Paul.
Not the first, there is one at the Washington University in St. Louis:
https://pnp.artsci.wustl.edu/graduate
Thanks, I knew about the distinguished PNP program, did not realize they awarded their own PhD!
I'm not sure about American PhD programs in recent history, but historically speaking I recall that when psychology was mostly an experimental science in the 19th century, it was housed in philosophy departments, and in France if memory serves me right, it was Bergson who cast them out and that set "the divorce" in motion.
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