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So I was going over applications and noticed a very familiar looking résumé. A quick search concluded that while I haven't turned down that specific applicant before, I have turned down an applicant with the exact same résumé.
Hmm...
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Might be they just used a commonly available template.
We had a plagarism scare at workschool last year. Multiple students - at least five - all turned in the same paragraph in their essay, word for word, which happened to be easily found online - and in an exam where internet access should have been impossible. I had to investigate if there was any way in which they could have accessed the internet from the supposed-to-be-locked-down computers.
After noticing that the students made different typos though, teachers found the real explanation: Written notes that they are allowed to take into the exam. All the students had used the same website for research which had a handy list of 'things the exam will probably ask you' and a list of bullet point answers to give. So all the students then hand-wrote those answers into their paper notes, which were allowed in the exam, and took it in. The site was correct, the standard question was indeed asked - and everyone gave the exact answers the site said to give, copied from their notes, in turn copied from the site.
Notably though, there was no collaboration. All the students involved had, entirely independently, discovered exactly the same way to cheat.
Because you try explaining the idea of plagarism to teenagers who grew up with copy-paste. Their concept of learning is different from the teachers: The idea of ever /not/ having internet access is beyond their comprehension. To them, learning a subject means being able to fully integrate your understanding of the subject matter with the limitless information available via google.
We had a plagarism scare at workschool last year. Multiple students - at least five - all turned in the same paragraph in their essay, word for word, which happened to be easily found online - and in an exam where internet access should have been impossible. I had to investigate if there was any way in which they could have accessed the internet from the supposed-to-be-locked-down computers.
After noticing that the students made different typos though, teachers found the real explanation: Written notes that they are allowed to take into the exam. All the students had used the same website for research which had a handy list of 'things the exam will probably ask you' and a list of bullet point answers to give. So all the students then hand-wrote those answers into their paper notes, which were allowed in the exam, and took it in. The site was correct, the standard question was indeed asked - and everyone gave the exact answers the site said to give, copied from their notes, in turn copied from the site.
Notably though, there was no collaboration. All the students involved had, entirely independently, discovered exactly the same way to cheat.
Because you try explaining the idea of plagarism to teenagers who grew up with copy-paste. Their concept of learning is different from the teachers: The idea of ever /not/ having internet access is beyond their comprehension. To them, learning a subject means being able to fully integrate your understanding of the subject matter with the limitless information available via google.
Oh no, this was very likely the same resume. Of course, it's not impossible that two people were born the same day, went to the same school, highschool, and university, and then worked at the exact same positions in the exact same companies during the exact same time periods. However, it's very unlikely that two different people both are the single founder and owner of the same company in the same location at the same time.
It's of course impossible to rule out, but applications from Earth 2 through 25 are dealt with by who- or whatever fills my position in those timelines.
As for getting stuff off the Internet, well, before the Internet there were books. I still have stacks and more stacks of reference literature, and I still prefer printed media. Digital references simply aren't accessible in the same way as printed.
It's of course impossible to rule out, but applications from Earth 2 through 25 are dealt with by who- or whatever fills my position in those timelines.
As for getting stuff off the Internet, well, before the Internet there were books. I still have stacks and more stacks of reference literature, and I still prefer printed media. Digital references simply aren't accessible in the same way as printed.
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