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Re: Covfefe-19 The 10th Part: Might As Well Reject No Shirt, No Shoes While You're At
I had no idea they ran those metrics on science papers. That makes no sense to me -- if you're replicating results that's not plagiarism, it's validation.
OTOH for Humanities those things are great. You don't use them blind, you use them to id the paper it turns out the little bastid was obviously plagiarizing.
I forget the story but there's a SF classic where there are so many grad students in the galaxy that between the time you submit your dissertation and the time of your defense it's statistically probable that your topic has already cleared a different defense somewhere, causing yours to be thrown out as derivative, even though you've never heard of the other researcher.
Now that's a scarred doctoral candidate.
It's like those poor doomed kids whose dissertation board members keep dying before they can defend. I personally know somebody (not Dr. Mrs.) who went through 3. In History it's worse because the faculty are always so f-cking old; they never retire, they simply are retired, eventually.
I had no idea they ran those metrics on science papers. That makes no sense to me -- if you're replicating results that's not plagiarism, it's validation.
OTOH for Humanities those things are great. You don't use them blind, you use them to id the paper it turns out the little bastid was obviously plagiarizing.
I forget the story but there's a SF classic where there are so many grad students in the galaxy that between the time you submit your dissertation and the time of your defense it's statistically probable that your topic has already cleared a different defense somewhere, causing yours to be thrown out as derivative, even though you've never heard of the other researcher.
Now that's a scarred doctoral candidate.
It's like those poor doomed kids whose dissertation board members keep dying before they can defend. I personally know somebody (not Dr. Mrs.) who went through 3. In History it's worse because the faculty are always so f-cking old; they never retire, they simply are retired, eventually.
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