Re: Testing job applicants

[seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)]

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.

Hypothetically, if no one ever knew, you'd do "well" - but projects you were
involved with would still be worse off than projects you weren't, because
there'd be one less person contributing.

Anyway, for the most part, this ranks up there with "what if you invented
a perpetual motion machine and had it do your homework".

-s
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