"...but first let's get into the groove with a bit of Adam Ant"
Adam Ant!?
Plince charming is not a party member and ridicurle is something we are scared of, prease
by-stand whire we google censor for us.
Chinese exam cheats employing spy-tech
More than 1000 cheats were caught in last year's Chinese civil-service exams, some using "spy technology" including micro earpieces - but it was conformity of answers that betrayed most of them. The Chinese state media said 300 candidates were caught while sitting in the exam room, presumably trying to tune their micro- …
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Monday 19th January 2009 21:19 GMT Gregory Orton
Not a new phenomenon
I live in China and have worked as a teacher for the last year. Cheating is a way of life in China. It's what they do. Conformity of answers mean nothing to them. They are the borg. They would rather have the same answers than risk being different and losing face.
I postulate that given a pattern of 1000 repetitive actions and a limited time period to work at them, over the course of the 1000 repetitive actions, a Chinese worker would consistently have a lower percentage of mistakes than a western educated person. But introduce some kind of change or need for thinking past a defined repetitive learning experience I'd bet my house that this advantage would disappear.
It's their education system that's failing them, not the natural entrepeneur ship of human kind profiting from a market where demand far exceeds supply....
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Tuesday 20th January 2009 01:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
@ Greg Orton
sounds like you need to get out of china mate!
not that i haven't felt the same way as you, but the chinese are not the borg
they're just like you and me with an added dose of competition and peer pressure
but given the state of local residential construction your bet is not particularly tempting
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Tuesday 20th January 2009 10:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
I thought they had to be Eunuchs
and I not talking the BSD or Solaris kind, more the Aled Jones snowman variety.
A life in the Triads doesn't seem so bad, when compared with being two balls short of a sack, they can have tattoos and do Kung Fu, and all that.
China is the copy central of the world, there is no innovation it has been beaten out of them by years of Communist Labour rule. Still if they could only all jump together, then we could see if it is an urban myth or not.
-- Signed Prince Philp
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Tuesday 20th January 2009 10:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
@ Greg
Not quite the borg, not far off either though.
I worked in a company in China for some time and what struck me is their fear of being to blame for something going wrong. This lead to almost all design decisions being made by groups.
Also the Chinese method of learning is by repetition (starts as small children with learning to write all those characters - "copy each character on this page 20 times") so you will end up with quite a few people having the very same answer almost word for word - i.e. word for word what was written in their school books.
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Tuesday 20th January 2009 16:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
@AC no quite the Borg
a much more realistic view.
if we in the west had been brought up in an environment where there was great pressure to conform and very harsh penalties for not doing so , we would be alot more careful about dodging blame
the use of characters also has to do with it also, which can be seen in both classic confucian and communist education methods
@AC i thought they had to be eunuchs
actually, while historically triads were linked to chinese boxing associations, modern triads (at least those in hong kong) practice thai boxing* as a more effective alternative.
*at least according to the events surrounding Alex choi and the ICAC)
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