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In the first decade of this millennium, we were all impacted and shocked by some serious acts of cheating. However, had we stopped to reason about the situations in question, we might have foreseen the cheating. We might have predicted the cheating from the very motivating factors that brought the cheating about. In this page we will discuss a few famous examples of cheating from this last decade and show how their common elements relate to mathematical reasoning.
…Cheating becomes most probable when the incentives are very high and simple, arbitrary, one dimensional definitions of success make cheating very easy.
…We have discussed a simple formula to guarantee that cheating will occur. First, create a simple one dimensional definition of success. Second, create strong incentives to achieve that outcome. Third, fail to audit the methods by which involved parties achieve that outcome. When you do this you guarantee that cheating will occur.
Go to this link for more:
http://conceptualmath.org/philo/cheating.htm
Go to this link for part 1 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/misc/testshort.htm
Go to this link for part 2 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/misc/MAPtest.htm
Go to this link for part 3 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/misc/testsupport.htm
Go to this link for part 4 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/misc/testadmin.htm
Go to this link for part 5 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/philo/weak_acad.htm
Go to this link for part 6 of this series:
http://conceptualmath.org/misc/testchoice.htm
