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I have been in a situation closely resembling the situation described: In my student days, long ago in the age of the big mainframes, the results from all exams were stored on the same big Univac as we used for our excercises. We were a group of five students who discovered that the files holding the exam results did not have any access key protection; anyone knowing their location could read or modify them..
For a period of about two weeks, while exam results were flowing in, this was the primary location of the results, before they were moved to a permanent database. If we had changed the results in those files, the permanent, official records would have been changed. We could have done so, but did not.
Rather, we went to the regional newspaper, which made a story about how poorly protected this information is, and how changing it could affect the students for the rest of their lives, e.g. which job offers they might get in the the future, the access to higher studies etc.
The University got really p... at us for gossiping, and we later learned that the University Council had been discussing at length whether we should be expelled from the University (we were not, and we didn't know that it had been considered until much later).
At that time, "whistleblowers" didn't have any legal protection. Today they do, and I believe that if it had happened today, and we had been expelled, we could take the case to court and have the expelling declared illegal.
Behind closed doors, the guys at the computer center thanked us: For years, they had tried to compel the University administration to add access keys to the files, but the secretaries thought it too cumbersome specifying that key every time they opened the file. After our revealing actions, they did add keys, though. But half a year later, for the files with the next set of exam results, the access keys were omitted. We chose to keep quiet about it. Maybe we shouln't have.
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But of course in Germany it's (for politicians and/or statesman) not unusual to buy an examination or graduation ...
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I would take him for a drink. Oh c'mon, finally we have someone who doesn't care about the system that respect the marks more than concepts — but if he is bad at concepts, then things could get messy.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I would love to see how many will do it and how many will not
Bryian Tan
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The results aren't that informative to us. Actual results would have been better.
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Not sure what you mean.
The average is the average of the 1-5 votes that were cast for each option.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Are these averages weighted like in the other posts? Instead of a weight, 5 columns with numbers voted would have given an absolute answer (especially since radio buttons were used).
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... that a friend took at university. He handed it in five minutes later and walked out. He came to me after the test and asked me to tear it up because he was sick (which I knew) and he'll fail if I don't. I refused. He cried because he needed it to graduate. I refused. I told him I'll tell the teacher about his situation without mentioning the after-test discussion. The teacher gave him a retake (I believe), but we never spoke again.
Note:
In college/At university?
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"an disgrace" - better get upchucky on the job!
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Never really thought of displaying a histogram (popup OK?) but it's a great idea.
As to your other awesome upchuck, send me your suggestions for a poll. I'll let the millions of developers who read the homepage judge you in turn
cheers
Chris Maunder
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A histogram with actual values is even better than what I said.
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How's it now?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The responses are all equal. Are the averages weighted? Actual totals in a histogram would have shown us actual answers.
Reading old messages I see.
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This histogram shows the number of times a responder chose the given value
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Where? Responses? All equal to 1,155?
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There were 1155 responses the question (and to each option).
The average for "college" was 1.6, and for post grad was 1.55
Hover over the orange bar and you see the histogram for College has 111 5's, and for post grad there are 116 5's
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Aaaggh! I didn't know that.
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I can hand you back one upchucky.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Echoing a previous post: Was this survey submitting by a child? I'm not sure what information somebody would be hoping to gather by asking a group of professionals if they'd hack a grading system.
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Sometimes surveys are for curiosity, not scientific research.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Suppose it was a course in hacking . . . ?*
https://www.codeproject.com/info/markdown.aspx
(Change ALL grades - teach instructor a lesson?)
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For a friend, no way. For myself, well, isn't that like the final exam of such a course?
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That's why you do all of the exams (not just the friend) and thus do a favor (sort of) for the instructor . . . like having the instructor enroll in his own course (taught by someone else).
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Plausible deniability if you change the marks for everyone.
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