@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 That's easy, because the problem isn't a completely new one. You've heard of ghost writers, right? These people who write things that other people pay to put their names on?
The old worry was that students would have ghost writers write their theses.
The old worry was that students would have ghost writers write their theses.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 In order to keep students from getting away with that, schools make students who are going to get their PhDs defend their theses.
It's just you, a piece of chalk and that blackboard in front of a few college professors asking you hard questions about your thesis.
It's just you, a piece of chalk and that blackboard in front of a few college professors asking you hard questions about your thesis.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 If you can't answer those questions, no degree.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 Schools could start doing sort of the same thing with other papers. Bring the kids in, have them face committees made up of their professors and TAs, and have them defend their papers, explaining them (or trying to) in front of a group of people who won't be fooled by BS.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 That would be a good place to start.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 Also, I understand that there are statistical patterns that persist in one's writing style. That there are researchers in the history of Literature that use these to determine who really wrote a piece of literature.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 One could make the students write essays in class, while proctored, and then scan for statistical discrepancies between the writing style of the student and the author of a paper not written in class.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 I can think of a few more possibilities, but I think you get the idea. Give them a chance to trip and see who falls.
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