A Novel Twist On Academia, Or A Pointless Exercise?

[Jocky Balboa]

This is a very interesting read:

 

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/why-i-let-my-students-cheat-their-game-theory-exam

 

On one hand, he has broken almost every fundamental conventional rule with regards to academic exams, but on the other hand, it has taught him much about group strategy.

 

Your thoughts?

[Ke1t]

This is a very interesting read:

 

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/why-i-let-my-students-cheat-their-game-theory-exam

 

On one hand, he has broken almost every fundamental conventional rule with regards to academic exams, but on the other hand, it has taught him much about group strategy.

 

Your thoughts?

 

My thoughts are that it's a largely pointless exercise.

 

Of course humans work well (and better) together (a few obvious exceptions notwithstanding), surely a million years of evolutionary history has already shown us that we reached this point in our evolution/society thanks primarily to co-operation?

 

Give me one example of where one dude has built a thousand miles of paved road, a rail network, a space station, a winning F1 racecar, or a hundred floor skyscraper?

 

If it hadn't been for social units we'd likely never have been able to come down from the trees, so the notion that students banding together to sit a test increases the efficiency of each member of the group should be fairly self-evident.

 

Unless I'm missing something really obvious?

[The Boofon]

I suspect the guy who wrote the article will one day end up being accused of molesting his students.