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Re: Testing job applicants
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:56:17 -0500, hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard
S Shubs) wrote:
>In article <37F4186F.CD98B06C@mail.newcastle.edu.au>, Adam Anderson
><aanderso@mail.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>What if you so good at cheating that you can successfully do it in the real
>>world as well as in exams to the extent that your success rate is higher
>>than it would be if you had relied on actually learning the information.
>>Learning and cheating are both means. Its the result that will ALWAYS
>>count.
>
>In that case, effectively, you'll always be a suck-up to others who are
>better than you, and it will catch up to you fairly quickly.
Not if the others behave the same and got there by the same
means: it's called an organization!
What is the function of an organization: to perpetuate itself to
ensure that the controlling members continue to receive higher
levels of compensation.
Any useful output is purely a spurious side effect.
Like using Windows!
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Brian_Inglis@CSi.com (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca)
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