The one student who got caught for plagiarism when I was a TA was busted by turnitin. Maybe the tool isn't perfect but it caught this student who had painstakingly replaced every single word in a copied paper with a synonym. I'm talking "perhaps the utility is not flawless, but the use of this utility allowed for the apprehension of a pupil who..." etc.
So it either only caught a single cheater among some unknown number, or only a single student cheated? Neither case seems to justify the expense and hassle of subjecting everybody to this process, not to mention everything else wrong with TurnItIn.
I'm always shocked at how much students will put in effort simply not to do an assignment given. I guess this is just part of what you will get when you attach cultural and economic worth to a set of hoops to jump through [even if the intent is to have institutions of knowledge, sadly I think many students just see it as a way to get economic stability].
Unrelated to the cheating part, if you don't see American colleges primarily as a path to economic stability, I think you are probably either rich that it doesn't matter or haven't seen the bottom 25% outcomes of college graduates who didn't treat it as a financial opportunity/investment and are struggling.
grammarly is pretty old, Not sure when it became available, but it was already pretty well established as a high quality writing assistant by ~2012.
It had various tools and heuristicsv to suggest different phrasings and better words that were pretty incredible if compared to anything else back then
I had the same experience with AWS ec2 free tier that ran out after a year and started billing me. They bill me $17/mo now even though the machine was shut down and AWS account was closed 2 months ago
harder to make 100k 23 years ago than it is today. by the time you finish a 2k/mo journey you begin today, 1.25M will be no longer be the cutoff for top 10%
The worst part is the outrage part is downright addictive. Trying to get people who are plugged into this loop to take a step back and consider others' perspective is like taking their favorite toy away
The biggest difference is that you're thinking about a very nasty 0.1% of twitter that use the platform to harass, whereas harassment is the primary purpose of this site.
Huh yeah... you can see unhealthy people put away a 2 litre bottle of something like Coca-Cola without thinking twice, but that would seem like an obscene quantity of orange juice or something to almost anyone I think.
When I was a deeply unhealthy teenager (about the same time I was regularly going through a 30-pack of Coke in a week) I would frequently also drink a gallon jug of orange juice in a day. I still (decades later) have to keep an eye on myself around that stuff; all the variants of sugar-water are reserved for special occasions these days.
Turns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.
I was surprised at the level of effort