EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by Impassionata on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:51PM (#26909882)

This privileges confident speakers. (The same way written tests privilege confident readers, and standardized written tests privilege those who have the time and resources to study the standard.)

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by foerbert on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:06AM (#26911871)

I'm not sure about that.

It certainly could, but it also certainly couldn't. I imagine being confidently incorrect is likely to produce a worse result than being unconfidently(?) incorrect, for example.

Similarly, a less confident speaker may end up spending more effort justifying their answers, which could better expose their knowledge.

I think it would depend quite a bit on the examiner in this case. Some people may even be simply biased against particularly confident speakers, particularly considering the relative positions of the speaker and examiner.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by TeMPOraL on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:40AM (#26913655)

It doesn't if the examiner understands the material. You can't bullshit someone who knows much more about a topic than you do - bullshitting with confidence will only make you sound like a fool.

If the examiner isn't much more knowledgeable about a topic than their students, then something else has gone wrong.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by jrumbut on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:37AM (#26914614)

But you can appear to know less than you actually do through a lack of confidence.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by ska on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:57PM (#26916703)

Right, but that's why it takes a bit skill on the part of the examiner - you need to be able to support people through their nerves and lack of confidence.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by ska on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:18AM (#26911219)

Not much if you do it well. Confident and wrong won’t get you far, either ...

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by Invictus0 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:06PM (#26910591)

The real world also privileges confident speakers.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by fludlight on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:20PM (#26910053)

Schools should be teaching kids to be confident speakers and readers from an early age.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by anoncake on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:47AM (#26932668)

If teaching worked 100% we wouldn't need exams.

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