[shubik22]

Horrifying. The Dartmouth med school faculty identifies 17 students they suspect as cheating. Nearly half of these they eliminate as false positives. Rather than grappling with the obvious unreliability of a methodology with at least a 50% false positive rate (from the NYT: “the use of Canvas in the cheating investigation was unusual because the software was not designed as a forensic tool”), they decide the remaining students must all be guilty.

To become a doctor in the U.S. requires an incredible amount of intelligence, hard work and personal sacrifice. To destroy the lives of these med students based on such an unreliable and unfair process is, in my opinion, a true injustice.

[joatmon-snoo]

Anyone who has ever done analysis of raw data knows that the process consists of iteratively excising bad data until you can actually precisely and accurately explain your analysis results.

Tools like this, where the data consumers (campus admins) have no possible way of understanding the data analysis methodology, let alone the raw data themselves, when the _responsibility_ for the consequences lives with the consumers, have no business operating like they do today.

[tomjen3]

It is really bad, but to compare the the standard screenning for HIV ends up with an about 50% false positive rate in the general population because the background rate is so low. I wouldn't throw out the result based on the tool being inaccurate, I would dig deeper.

[tokai]

Having your life destroyed by an unfair process is just as much of an injustice when you are not intelligent.

[outime]

I don’t think OP meant otherwise, it was just a description of what being a med student entails because the submission is about med students.

[shubik22]

Yes, I didn’t mean to make that implication (although I see now I could have phrased it better). My main point was that this injustice seems especially egregious given the sacrifices made by med students/residents/etc. during their medical education.