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Re:'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience by Y_Y on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:01PM (#13133039)
The point of school (American school, at least) isnt to learn, its to get a good grade. When the goal is a number, than 'cheating' is simply trying to achieve the goal.

Aka Goodhart's Law[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

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