I find it sort of strange that when Computer Science profs use computers to test projects it is seen as legitimate, but when a computer can do it for sociology papers it is seen as a slam against the discipline.
If in fact computers can do a decent job at this sort of thing, then getting a good grade in the social sciences/humanities might be less arbitrary/subjective than popular opinion would have us believe.
Of course just like it's hard for a program to check if code is "innovative" or "clever", we will probably need humans to decide whether a student looked at an issue in a particularly insightful way.
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I find it sort of strange that when Computer Science profs use computers to test projects it is seen as legitimate, but when a computer can do it for sociology papers it is seen as a slam against the discipline. If in fact computers can do a decent job at this sort of thing, then getting a good grade in the social sciences/humanities might be less arbitrary/subjective than popular opinion would have us believe. Of course just like it's hard for a program to check if code is "innovative" or "clever", we will probably need humans to decide whether a student looked at an issue in a particularly insightful way.