Catching Exam Cheats With a Spectrum Analyzer

angry tapir writes "Police in Taiwan have used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone signals. Officers used three FSH4 analyzers specially configured by the German manufacturer Rohde & Schwarz to monitor an exam in south Taiwan for prospective government workers."

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Re:Exams in other cultures

[khchung]

I have lived outside our Western culture for a while now, and there is a big difference in the idea of tests and examinations. We have the idea that the test is there to see who is competent to get the job.

I have lived inside your Western culture and worked as TA and helped grading exams. And I can say that your "idea" that tests and exams are for seeing who's competent is just that -- your own idea, which has little relation with reality. (Or you might enlighten us how knowing why manhole is round demonstrate your competence in whatever job interview? Or why everybody said "it's who you know, not what you know" that matters?)

The fact is Western students lie and cheat just as much as Eastern students. The difference being Western students are hypocrite enough to criticize other students cheating while cheating themselves. Anyone missed the news sometime ago where a professor offering amnesty to students who admitted to cheating, and a big portion of his class came forward? Anyone dare say their class don't have any cheaters?

Your post is just typical Western hypocrisy of comparing Western ideals (which nobody does in practice) against other cultures' actual practice, and then generalize that to indicate some deficiency on the others' culture. But don't let facts get bother your mental masturbation on the superiority of Western culture.