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 Discussion on question by Dev15: Comi…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 27, 2024 21:31
@syntheticgio In the UK in particular, the dissertation is essentially the only piece of summatively assessed work in a PhD, so "all but dissertation" could mean you hadn't done anything at all.
 

 Discussion on question by ilctf: Leav…

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Daniel Hatton
Jan 4, 2024 08:18
At time of submission, did you indicate in writing to the corresponding author (or direct to the publisher) that you consented to the paper being submitted with you on the author list?
 

 Discussion on answer by keshlam: How …

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Daniel Hatton
Sep 21, 2023 23:27
@keshlam If your contract and the company's published policy documents, or public law in the relevant jurisdiction, say you'll have privacy up to a certain point, then you have a reasonable expectation of privacy up to that point.
 

 Discussion on question by Dan: What s…

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Daniel Hatton
Apr 24, 2023 17:03
@JackAidley One could argue that it's plagiarising the documents in the AI's training set.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: I chea…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 26, 2023 15:22
I don't have a good answer to that, except maybe to wait to submit your C.Eng. application until you're secure enough in your career and your life that you can afford to take that risk.
Daniel Hatton
Mar 26, 2023 15:22
@Anon You've hit the nail on the head. For many people, a good way to establish the "ethical principles: honesty and integrity" competence is to say in the C.Eng. application "The worst ethical judgement I ever made was X. Once I realized it was an ethical misjudgement, I took action Y to mitigate the consequences, and action Z to prevent anything similar happening in my career again." For you, the nature of X is such that owning up to it in the C.Eng. application would be a big risk.
Daniel Hatton
Mar 26, 2023 15:22
@Anon I think, if you really believed the revision you'd done was enough to give you the skills, you wouldn't have cheated on the exams in the first place. I fear it's not going to be that easy.
Daniel Hatton
Mar 26, 2023 15:22
This is good advice as far as it goes, but I worry that OP may end up being assigned to safety-critical projects on the basis of being certificated as having skills that they don't, in fact, have. So in addition to stopping beating themselves up and going and sinning no more, I think it's incumbent on OP to take action to identify those skills deficits and fill in the gaps.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: Accuse…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 23, 2023 14:47
@Nobody In writing research papers, there is also the fear that, even if you successfully avoid plagiarism with the use of proper citations and quotation marks, excessive direct quotation might take you into the territory of copyright infringement.
Daniel Hatton
Mar 23, 2023 13:30
@Nobody If you give a proper citation and a clear indication that it's direct quotation, such as quotation marks or indentation, then you don't need to rewrite words or sentences to avoid an accusation of plagiarism. But if you're an undergraduate, you might need to rewrite words or sentences to demonstrate that you've achieved some learning outcome that can't be demonstrated by direct quotation; and if you're a very naughty undergraduate, you might try to pretend that you've achieved that learning outcome by leaving off the quotation marks: then that's plagiarism.
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: Is …

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 21, 2023 13:35
Whoa there. AIUI, the phase velocity of a wave can exceed c without violating special relativity/causality, because information is not propagated at the phase velocity.
 

 Discussion on answer by Daniel R. Col…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 14, 2023 19:24
@ZeroTheHero Places I'm familiar with: at Cambridge, an instructor is present for the first 30 minutes of any exam for just this reason; at Plymouth, the invigilators always have the instructor's mobile 'phone number, likewise.
 

 Discussion on question by tailingfibe…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 13, 2023 03:44
The Google search fortnight -fortnite site:gov suggests the word is not that unusual in the US.
 

 Discussion on question by aepryus: As…

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Daniel Hatton
Mar 1, 2023 06:54
Neither general relativity nor quantum field theory is in my bailiwick at all, but I wonder whether someone who specializes in general relativity might disagree (perhaps strongly enough to explain their non-engagement with you) with your claim that there is no experimental verification of the invariance, between inertial frames, of the squared interval between spacetime events.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: Does p…

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Daniel Hatton
Feb 22, 2023 03:19
'For results, in these times, that depend on particular computer code, it is frowned upon to keep that code confidential' Oh how I wish that were true.
 

 Discussion on question by Owl104: Is …

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Daniel Hatton
Feb 22, 2023 03:15
@BryanKrause It's difficult to learn what plagiarism is if well-funded organisations with skilful marketing departments are trying to mislead you about it. I don't know if you've watched any YouTube videos lately, but some of the snowstorm of adverts one has to sit through first are hair-raising.
 

 Discussion on question by Ana: Need h…

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Daniel Hatton
Jan 29, 2023 23:07
Since tackling the problem head-on seems to be ruled out, maybe a sneakier approach is required. If these senior undergrads have time to audit junior undergrad courses for the sole purpose of harassing young women, maybe their major is not keeping them busy enough, and the solution might be to increase the coverage of the core courses for engineering majors.
 

 Discussion on question by elite: A ra…

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Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
There's still not enough information here to have any real clarity, but I'm increasingly thinking that most of the assorted stuff the supervisor has said has probably not, in fact, contributed to the publisher's decision to retract, and that the critical issue is that the university claims ownership of IP rights in the data set, and is refusing permission to use the data. If so, that's a legal question outside the scope of academic ethics.
Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
@elite If you're thinking of suing, you need to engage a qualified lawyer. One of the first things that lawyer will say is "show me the actual text of the communications you received from the publisher". Perhaps you'll be more willing to do that for them than you are for us.
Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
@elite Nope. Still not complete sentences of direct quotation from the publisher. You really haven't provided enough information for us to have any idea what the answer to your question is.
Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
@elite That's not "complete sentences of direct quotation from the publisher", is it? I really don't think we're going to understand what's happened adequately unless you provide the publisher's stated reasons in that form.
Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
@elite Well, no, not really, I couldn't. Frankly, you have a better chance of doing that than the rest of us do. When the publisher sent you the final communication telling you the paper was being retracted, presumably they stated a reason. Please can you tell us that reason in the form of complete sentences of direct quotation from the publisher, not in the form of a partial or complete paraphrase?
Daniel Hatton
Dec 31, 2022 16:41
Reading between the lines, words like "license" and "ownership" suggest to me either that the supervisor alleged an IP infringement, or that in the course of investigating the supervisor's claims, the publisher discovered an unrelated possible IP infringement. @elite, is that correct?
 

 Discussion on question by lordy: How …

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Daniel Hatton
Dec 19, 2022 11:01
Oof. Even if there is only an audience of 1 or 2, I feel seen.
Daniel Hatton
Dec 18, 2022 14:47
Out of interest: anyone have any ideas why, no matter how interesting and lively the discussion in the comments, moving it to chat usually kills it stone dead?
Daniel Hatton
Dec 18, 2022 14:44
Not an answer, but perhaps a seed that may grow into an answer: rather than targeting the use of an AI author per se, try targeting the likelihood that the AI author plagiarises the documents in its training set.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ottie: Why do…

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Daniel Hatton
Dec 9, 2022 15:41
@IanSudbery Yes, although I think other European countries have rather more parity of esteem between their different secondary-school pathways than the Butler system: so is that "specialization" or "stratification"?
Daniel Hatton
Dec 9, 2022 15:41
@IanSudbery Some LEAs stratify at 11. But even in those that don't, most students in English and Welsh sixth forms are on either a fully STEM path or a fully arts-and-humanities path, in contrast to US high schools.
 

 Discussion on answer by LifeInTheTree…

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Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
(Also worth mentioning that Cambridge provides means-tested, non-repayable bursaries of about £3000 per year for students from below-average-income families, which most other universities can't afford to do.)
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@Trunk In England and Wales (Scotland is different), there are (since c. 2011) no grants to cover any part of tuition fees: students take out (somewhat Government-underwritten) loans to cover both tuition fees and living expenses. Oxbridge is no different from anywhere else: pretty much all English universities charge the regulatory maximum of £9250 per year. (In fact, the total cost of study at Oxbridge is a little lower than most English universities, because the rents for university-managed student accommodation are lower.) You're right about the 70s: students were not charged fees then.
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@LifeInTheTrees I think I can confidently say that no Oxbridge college has ever charged home students more in fees than the current £9250 regulatory cap, nor did they charge anything in the pre-1998 system.
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@Trunk and LifeInTheTrees It's a neverending arms race between admissions tutors who (mostly) want to assess which applicants have the best chance of benefiting from the programmes and admit those applicants, and moneyed individuals and organisations that want to find ways to spend their money on confounding those assessments and getting their favoured applicants in - and certain elements of the press that disapprove loudly of any potentially-effective attempt by the admissions tutors to win. But now we're way off topic.
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@Trunk Yet on the STEM side, Cambridge has one mega-programme in Natural Sciences, not separate programmes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology etc..
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@LifeInTheTrees Incidentally, in WS2's answer, there's a list of Cambridge graduates who've had a credible chance of becoming PM since WW2. Not one of them studied HSPS (nor its slightly-differently-named predecessor programmes).
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@Trunk Cambridge has a degree programme in Economics, and a degree programme in Human, Social and Political Sciences. It's possible to follow the first year of one programme and the last two years of the other, but there's not a pre-built pathway that involves both disciplines.
Daniel Hatton
Nov 21, 2022 20:04
@LifeInTheTrees I think the Pitt Club has only admitted women since 2015. (As the old song goes, 'The Union, as of yore, against us bars the door, the Pitt as bachelor revives, and Hawks unmated soar'.)
 

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Daniel Hatton
Nov 8, 2022 09:28
@DavidHammen But it's how this question arises: to me, viewing the cartoon for the first time without knowing about the cartoonist's views expressed elsewhere, it appeared to be making exactly the opposite point from the one the cartoonist (probably) intended.
Daniel Hatton
Nov 8, 2022 09:28
@NotThatGuy It's non-neutral because it talks about 'perhaps over the top responses' while failing to mention that there's still a live and credible view that western countries' anti-Covid precautions have (so far) not been nearly strict enough.
 

 Discussion on question by Jontia: Doe…

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Daniel Hatton
Oct 20, 2022 18:29
@Valorum It's not my claim, it's the Tory whips'. Like you, I suspect that if they lose the vote, they'll just say they didn't mean it, but who knows?
Daniel Hatton
Oct 20, 2022 18:29
@Valorum 1. In the latter case, the electorate will (quite rightly) not make that distinction between a VONC in the Government and a VONC in the PM; in the former case, the King might not make the distinction. 2. I don't know if you've caught the news today, but the Tory whips have, in any case, decided to turn an innocuous Labour-tabled timetabling motion, which initially had nothing to do with confidence, into a vote of (no) confidence in the Government.
Daniel Hatton
Oct 20, 2022 18:29
@Valorum 'Forcing every Conservative to vote confidence in their party isn't much of an event.' Well - if (as seems likely) 100 or so Tory MPs say that they have no confidence in the PM in an internal Conservative Party process, but simultaneously vote that they do have confidence in the Government in an official Parliamentary process, then opposition parties can use that fact in subsequent publicity materials to paint the Parliamentary Conservative Party as hypocritical and dishonest. That could be quite a big event.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Siegel:…

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Daniel Hatton
Sep 20, 2022 20:27
@Tristan and Barmar Indeed there was no veiling, although the police didn't make the threat on their own initiative: the owner of the blank sign (who is a qualified barrister) specifically asked them whether he would be arrested if he wrote a particular slogan on it.
Daniel Hatton
Sep 20, 2022 20:27
@MJeffryes From the description in the above-linked Wikipedia article, it looks like the offence that did for LJG was probably "counterfeiting the Royal sign manual", under the Treason Act 1535. The death penalty for that offence was abolished by the Forgery, Abolition of Punishment of Death Act 1832. Since the Forgery Act 1913, it's illegal only if done "with intent to defraud or deceive".
 

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Daniel Hatton
Sep 20, 2022 13:35
@ErikE Not just Germanic languages - French "sensible"=English "sensitive"
 

 Discussion on question by Sandra: Is …

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Daniel Hatton
Aug 5, 2022 16:07
@Sandra I've been thinking about it, and no, my comment doesn't qualify as an answer: "there's no misconduct" does not imply "every decision that was made is ethically justifiable".
Daniel Hatton
Aug 5, 2022 16:07
Assuming the first article didn't actually claim the system was stable, there's no misconduct. Maybe slightly sharp practice in delaying the publication of the stability analysis that rendered the model irrelevant to physical reality. But in the end, the editor of the journal decided that a paper turning the handle on the model without a stability analysis was within scope; the referees decided that a paper turning the handle on the model without a stability analysis was of sufficient rigour; and the subsequent workers who used the results did so knowing the system hadn't been proved stable.
 

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Daniel Hatton
Feb 9, 2022 20:44
Not an answer within the constraints of OP's recent edits, and perhaps a bit abstract for some, but: some people may feel rather safer living in a country which (whatever troubling noises its present Government makes) actually has ratified the regional human rights convention of its host continent.
 

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Daniel Hatton
Jan 26, 2022 13:01
@cpast Yes, although according to Wilson (1977, A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers, Book Club Associates), George V insisted that the Government call, fight, and win a new general election on the issue before He would allow them to create the necessary additional members of the House of Lords.
 

 Discussion on question by cgb5436: Ho…

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Daniel Hatton
Jan 13, 2022 00:33
Now I really want to know what the original question was. I guess it would be off-topic for Academia SE, but maybe on-topic for a discipline-specific SE site.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: Adding…

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Daniel Hatton
Jan 4, 2022 16:48
@Miguel What's being concealed is the fact that what's happening is an (unfavourable) assessment of the applicant's suitability for the job, rather than a technical error in completion of the form.