Looking for both philosophical and real world examples including situation-specific ones like one field of study that it would versus another where it wouldn’t. Idk I’m bored as shit and wanna discuss something.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    Idk why it wouldn’t be considered cheating? If it violates the conditions of the exam process, then it would be cheating. I don’t see how that would change if the medium changed.

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      Exactly.

      Like, maybe OP is thinking bodily autonomy would protect you? Sure, I don’t think anyone can stop you from doing this, but they can still flunk you out of the exam if you do, or at least demand you cover them. In the same vein, Starbucks doesn’t hire people with face tattoos.

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    When I was in high school, I wrote a TI-86 program in BASIC to do geography/physics formulae. Like “find the volume of a cube” and then it would ask you for the variables and solve for whichever one was missing.

    My teachers found out and actually ruled it not cheating because I wrote the program myself and hadn’t shared it with everyone. (I eventually became a computer programmer so they were probably right.)

    So, I’d say by that precedent, as long as you gave yourself the tattoo and learned a new trade, it’s fine. But looking at a friend’s tattoo would be cheating.

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      I think the difference here is being able to program a solver for formulae implies an understanding of the formulae being solved, specifically the ones the exam tests for. I’m not sure your teachers would have given you credit for tattooing some formula on your chest.

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      I wrote programs to solve statistics questions on my calculator, which was apparently fine at in class but not allowed for exams

      The invigilators would go around checking your calculator had been cleared and reset before the exam.

      So i wrote a program that replicated the reset screen. Totally worked. Didn’t use my stats program in the exam anyway.

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      I programmed my TI-83 with some basic maths programs but we all had to wipe the memory before exams. I still miss the tetris game i had on that thing :(

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    It would be cheating unless you didn’t know they would become answers to a test in the future.

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    I think any math teacher who sees you tattooed a formula on yourself and doesn’t let you look at it is an absolute dickhead. (Assuming the dickhead won’t allow formula sheets)

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    I had a classmate who had the identity matrix tattooed on his wrist. Proctors made him wear a bandage over it. There was also a t-shirt made by the math facility with a bunch of equations that was banned from exams.

    I don’t think either would actually be of real help (these were for second year math courses) but the profs considered it a matter of principal.