Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world? To : comp.programming From : Ben Pfaff Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 08:28 am Chris McDonald writes: > Plagiarism is a serious issue, and is treated seriously in the great > majority of university CS courses. However, I certainly envy Stanford > if it is able to (genuinely) limit plariarism rates to only 3/80. > My personal feeling is that a rate of 3/80 (at any institution) > would be close to the reported and announced rate, but that the true > undetected/unreported rate, is much higher. No, 3/80 is just the plagiarism that we detected (using MOSS). I don't have any information about undetected plagiarism. > Raise your questions in the newgroup comp.edu which is read > by many CS Faculty/Academics, and many members of the ACM SIGCSE community > (cf. http://www.sigcse.org/). I'm very confident that you'll raise a > healthy, if not inflamed, discussion as to why genuine plagiarism occurrence > rates are so much higher than their actual detection/reported rates. Thanks for the pointers. I was not aware of either of these groups. -- A bicycle is one of the world's beautiful machines, beautiful machines are art, and art is civilisation, good living, and balm to the soul. --Elisa Francesca Roselli .