A professor says he caught 40 of his 96 on-line Introduction to Ethics college students dishonest by posting on Quizlet a duplicate of his closing examination with fallacious solutions, Day by day Nous reported.
Garret Merriam, an affiliate professor at California State College, Sacramento, instructed the philosophy web site that he discovered certainly one of his earlier closing exams on Quizlet.
Quizlet agreed to take it down, however Merriam then “determined to ‘poison the effectively’ by importing [to Quizlet] a duplicate of my closing with fallacious solutions,” he instructed the Day by day Nous.
“Most of those solutions weren’t simply fallacious, however clearly fallacious to anybody who had paid consideration in school,” he instructed Day by day Nous. He then, the web site reported, mathematically calculated, and counted as cheaters, these whose fallacious solutions had “not more than a 1 in 100 likelihood” of matching his poisoned-well solutions by coincidence.
His technique has itself sparked an moral debate, and he’s inviting enter, asking, “Am I the unethical one right here?”
