My story about tests
On the subject of tests and cheating -- a little story. When I was at
UCLA, I became pretty adept at taking multiple choice tests. As many
of you know, these tests are often designed in somewhat devious ways
where correct answers are not clear cut even if you know the material.
But if you apply a layer of rigorous logic to the analysis of these
questions, you can often boost your accuracy considerably.
In one particular class I got called into the professor's office after
a test (I think it was the midterm). He was concerned that I might
have cheated, because he claimed nobody in all the years he'd taught
that class had ever scored so high on that test.
Of course I hadn't cheated, and I told him so. He wanted to ask me a few
additional questions on the spot. I said sure. He asked, I answered
them all correctly. He was enormously apologetic.
We got along great after that. For many, many years after I left UCLA
I'd pop into his office if I happened to be on campus, and even after
so long he'd always enthusiastically greet me by name.
An automated test "honesty algorithnm" would never have been so human.
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