[londons_explore]

> blindly trusting the computer.

Professors blindly trust the computer not out of laziness, but to protect themselves from accusations of unfairness...

"The work was detected as plagiarism, but the professor overrode it for the pretty girl in class, but not for me"

[mitchdoogle]

Seems like something like this should only be used as a first-level filter. If the writing doesn't pass, it warrants more investigation. If no proof of plagiarism is found, then there's nothing else to do and professor must pass the student

[TchoBeer]

with a 26% true positive rate that seems flawed.