I guess it's noto so different from using grad students ...

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Susan Brynteson <susanb () udel edu>
> Date: October 23, 2009 16:33:08 EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] I guess it's noto so different from using grad  
> students ...

> For IP--
>
> In his email, Rich Kulawiec predicts that "an enterprising student  
> will memorize text, take the test and dutifully reproduce it  
> verbatim -- whether or not it actually makes any sense to a human."
>
> Well that is exactly what happened to Midshipman Willie Keith in the  
> classic and best-selling World War II novel, "The Caine Mutiny", by  
> Herman Wouk.
>
> In it, Midshipman Keith studied hard for an important exam from a  
> military manual which he found incomprehensible.  Then, it turned  
> out, from reading it so many times over and over and over and trying  
> to understand it, he had, without realizing it, memorized much of it.
>
> Come the exam, then, the question was asked, "Explain the Frictionless
> Bearing", and he responded verbatim from the manual, "words which  
> meant
> no more to him than a hindu chant," says Herman Wouk.
>
> When the results were announced, he stood first in the school, and  
> his instructor praised him and said it had been "a brutal essay  
> question designed to knock out all but the best".
>
> Truth is never stranger than fiction!
>
>                   Susan
>
> P.S. Here's to your IP list!  It's great.
>
>
>
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> Dave Farber wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > > *From:* Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org <mailto:rsk () gsp org>>
> > > *Date:* October 23, 2009 13:37:16 EDT
> > > *To:* Dave Farber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>>
> > > *Cc:* Randall Webmail <rvh40 () insightbb com <mailto:rvh40 () insightbb com 
> > > >>
> > > *Subject:* *Re: [IP] I guess it's noto so different from using  
> > > grad students ...*
> > >
> > >
> > > Interesting.  I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising
> > > student acquires a copy of the scoring program and runs a series of
> > > experiments designed to ascertain which text corpus yields the  
> > > maximum
> > > grade, then memorizes that, takes the test, and dutifully reproduces
> > > it verbatim -- whether or not it actually makes any sense to a  
> > > human.
> > >
> > > ---Rsk
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