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Cheating

posted 2005.10.05 Wednesday

I found this link through my bloggermate's search engine ("Who's blogging about GMU?"). 

Appearently there is a market in cheating (arms race).  The options for clever students have increased making it easier to cheat.  The options for clever teachers have also increased.  SO it seems that there are now efficient game-theoretic strategies in cheating (This last part is my extention). 

There seems to be problems with expectations (I am visualizing a expectation floor) which lead to a black market.  Rather than learning economics in school, the students seem to be using economics to avoid school.  Ah, the education system...

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1. Jason Briggeman left...
2005.10.05 Wednesday 2:04 pm

I'm sorry I didn't make sure to rule out any hits for "George Mason High School". :P


2. Michael Thomas left...
2005.10.05 Wednesday 2:36 pm

here is another link that is interesting:

suppression of free speech at gmu: http://pages.prodigy.net/thomasn528/blog/2005_10_02_new sarcv.html#112838399710949359