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Re: Cheating on school tests ...
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:04:33 +1200
Rob Slade wrote:
... by teachers, not students: http://www.economist.com/node/18958685 As a former school teacher, I'm depressed, but not really surprised. This is a predictable result of efforts by those who think that simple metrics will fix things.
...and more specifically, by such simepltons implementing an incredibly simplistic system to track such metrics, and in doing so, incentivizing exactly the kind of behaviour uncovered in this report. "Improving" education (whatever you may take that to mean) is uncontestably an incredibly complex, multi-multi-facted, deeply nuanced process. Simplistic chest-beating left-wing politicians sloganizing the kind of BS behind, inherent in and complicit with designed-to-fail stupidities such as "no child left behind" exposes the total inadequacy of those devising, promoting and implementing such "solutions" to even be allowed to be in a position to devise, promote or implement _anything_ that requires genuinely intelligent design. That such egregiously ill-equipped folk were in such positions tells one a lot about the society in general in which this all happened...
We, in security, should beware of equivalent simple, metric-based, fixes.
Of course we are -- such paragons of best practice as PCI DSS clearly attest to this... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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