HexesofVexes

Very careful wording there - this leaves them open to…

a. Sell it to Reddit.

b. Pass it to their partner company who “archives” it.

c. Sell it to someone else.

Three magic words - “Open Note Exam”

Students prep their own notes (usually limited to “X pages”), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.

Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.

Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don’t have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^

Fishing boat where it shouldn’t be - prosecute and fine.

Addressing the migrant comment - if you catch a small boat, your government gets to pay to settle or remove the occupants; if it sneaks through your government has to pay nothing. The game theory says “I saw no boat”. Shift the reward mechanism, have the boat’s departure nation pay half the costs, suddenly the reward mechanism says “boat spotted”.

At the root it’s a very difficult topic to address, let me change my language a little to avoid the politics implied by the room.

When you generalise a negative trait to a particular gender, you are making a sexist and hateful comment. The “emotional woman” and the “deceitful gold digger”, the “violent man” and the “potential rapist” - the former would lead to a talk with HR, the latter leads to open agreement and often accolade.

The argument made for this discrepancy is that it is redressing the systemic sexism built into our society, but I think that it has ceased to do so and us now fuelling the misogyny more than it is addressing it.

There is a need to redress societal imbalance that disadvantages women - however hatred only breeds more hatred. The path currently taken is wrong, and history will show that to be true.

Misogyny and misandry, two unhappy twins; one celebrated, the other shunned. Both found their way into this thread.

That’s enough internet for today I think.

[Removed] - a little too inflammatory on reflection.