Ask A Genius 731: Frauds and Cheating
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/02/27
[Recording Start]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we were talking about frauds but not mentioning names. You wanted to say something.
Rick Rosner: Well periodically in the high IQ world, there’s some fraud-y stuff that goes on, actually in the testing world there’s fraud-y stuff that goes on. There’s some testing fraud that makes sense, like the SAT is kind of becoming much less important of in getting into college. More and more colleges are saying it’s optional or just not even looking at it but every few years until a few years ago when the SAT became less important, there was a cheating scandal. There were various ways to cheat on the SAT. My favorite is the Hawaiian scam and I don’t know if anybody fully pulled it off but what you do is, I believe Hawaii is five hours behind the East Coast, and the SAT takes about three-three and a half hours. So you have some people take the test on the East Coast; some really good test takers and maybe they surreptitiously photograph the test and then if somebody’s gone to Hawaii to take it you’ve got three and a half hours for the test roughly and then you’ve got an hour roughly to get the answers to the test takers in Hawaii because the test doesn’t start until then.
I don’t know if anybody ever did that but that would be a slick way to do it but there were other ways to do it too. Things as simple as getting a fake ID and having somebody else take it for you. So anyway testing fraud is kind of high stakes because it helps determine whether you get into the college of your choice and due to testing fraud all the SAT scores for an entire Asian nation were thrown out like eight or ten years ago.
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