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Like—plagiarized, plagiarized. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355932930875396098
As a PhD student, and professor-in-training, this is actually, like, excruciatingly painful. This level of copy-&-pasting can get you failed out of undergrad courses, no ifs ands or buts. Not to mention the evil, egregious leveraging of a bad/confused study to hurt trans people.
seriously!!!!!!!!! I was!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355955786153771010
I ran both docs through TurnItIn, lol.
Tell me, profs: what would u do if a student's similarity report looked like this https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355932930875396098?s=20
Tell me, profs: what would u do if a student's similarity report looked like this https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355932930875396098?s=20
@christapeterso: Kathleen Stock and her ilk are not serious scholars.
John Schwenkler: how DARE you
Brian Leiter: this is a hit job, gate keepers man the gates
Christa (actually reading Stock et al.'s stuff, bothering to look up their sources): this is literally copy-and-paste
John Schwenkler: how DARE you
Brian Leiter: this is a hit job, gate keepers man the gates
Christa (actually reading Stock et al.'s stuff, bothering to look up their sources): this is literally copy-and-paste
this was submitted as EXPERT TESTIMONY to the BRITISH PARLIAMENT and then Stock received an OBE for SERVICES TO HIGHER EDUCATION https://twitter.com/philoso_foster/status/1355965927385260034?s=20
Leiter and Stock blocked me, someone (Dan Kaufman, u out there man?) should probably let them know.
oh neat — now you, too, can join in the fun! https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355991890324115457
can’t stop thinking about this https://twitter.com/philoso_foster/status/1356077862705528832
ok since this is getting wider circulation and some readers may not be familiar with TurnItIn, a couple of clarifications!!
(1) It says that the submission to Parliament from Profs Freedman, Stock and Sullivan matches a "student paper" at USC. That's because I (a PhD student/instructor at USC) had to submit both pdfs *as* "student papers" to run them through TurnItIn's software. https://twitter.com/philoso_foster/status/1355965927385260034?s=20
(2) TurnItIn doesn't discriminate between properly cited direct quotes & straight-up lifted material. But a 43% similarity index is MASSIVELY high – *even* for something with lots of block quotes. (Which, by the way, are not themselves even properly cited!) https://twitter.com/philoso_foster/status/1356134341982658563?s=20
(3) It is true, as some (in very transparent bad faith) have smugly proffered in defense of Stock et al, that TurnItIn's similarity index is not itself a reliable indicator of plagiarism. That is just true. As an instructor, you have to read stuff w/ your eyes and your brain.
(3, cont.) Sometimes TurnItIn "catches" totally innocuous stuff; sometimes it fails to catch very serious cases of academic dishonesty. (As in, e.g., a case I had last year where a student changed just enough words of an obviously identifiable book passage to "fool" the software)
(3, cont.) Indeed, TurnItIn *would* have failed to catch this one –– it did not originally pick up the pdf from Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, despite its being online. Hence my needing to upload it as another "student paper." https://mbmpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/murrayblackburnmackenzie-gra-consulation-response-final-copy-16-3-2020-2.pdf
But, and this is clarification (4), that is really besides the point, because (as I hope is clear by now!) Christa did not discover this o̶b̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ apparent case of plagiarism by using TurnItIn. She discovered it by... reading the pdf Stock linked to her telling her to read!!
I hope this helps clear things up!
And let's not lose sight of the big picture, here: full (tenured) professors submitted "expert" testimony to a GOVERNMENT committee which demonstrates a failure to uphold basic academic integrity standards that *undergrads* get failed for.
And let's not lose sight of the big picture, here: full (tenured) professors submitted "expert" testimony to a GOVERNMENT committee which demonstrates a failure to uphold basic academic integrity standards that *undergrads* get failed for.
And they did so under the pretense of offering new, previously unpublished assessment of the statistic questions at issue. (Which--by the way--they baldly and astoundingly misrepresent!!!) https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1355973607898247171?s=20
The author of the original "Swedish Study" has now repeatedly disavowed transphobic misinterpretations of her findings. This is not an obscure fact. https://twitter.com/JulietteBuet/status/1355984937976012800?s=20
Also just... lol https://twitter.com/FoldUpToys/status/1356016189743489025?s=20
Extremely relevant lil detail there, given that what Stock et al are *literally* trying to do is to curb legal protections for trans people!! https://twitter.com/FoldUpToys/status/1355959089013075978?s=20
