More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
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#2At the same time, a dirty trick and pure genius!
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#3Since I'm reading Patrick O'Brian again, I can't help but be reminded of the practice of false muster - keeping well-connected boys on the books of warships as midshipmen fraudulently, so as to accrue more service time and seniority.
Nepotism and zero-sum games just go hand-in-hand.
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#4At the same time, a dirty trick and pure genius!
Very creative :-p
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#5Since I'm reading Patrick O'Brian again, I can't help but be reminded of the practice of false muster - keeping well-connected boys on the books of warships as midshipmen fraudulently, so as to accrue more service time and seniority. Nepotism and zero-sum games just go hand-in-hand.
I suspect that’s a common practice. In Russian Emprie nobility’s kids were listed as soldiers when their mothers have been still pregnant. If a girl was born, the imaginary soldier was reported dead.
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#6Another great example of Goodhart's law.
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#7Since I'm reading Patrick O'Brian again, I can't help but be reminded of the practice of false muster - keeping well-connected boys on the books of warships as midshipmen fraudulently, so as to accrue more service time and seniority. Nepotism and zero-sum games just go hand-in-hand.
I don't see the connection to zero-sum. You can have nepotism in non-zero-sum games too. That might describe the traditional practice of handing down a trade to the next generation, where the bakers and blacksmiths trained their kids to do it and they took over the business when the old man retired.
Maybe people only complain when the nepotism is in a zero-sum context, where someone else is losing.
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#8Since I'm reading Patrick O'Brian again, I can't help but be reminded of the practice of false muster - keeping well-connected boys on the books of warships as midshipmen fraudulently, so as to accrue more service time and seniority. Nepotism and zero-sum games just go hand-in-hand.
I suspect that’s a common practice. In Russian Emprie nobility’s kids were listed as soldiers when their mothers have been still pregnant. If a girl was born, the imaginary soldier was reported dead.
please proof - just curious
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#9At the same time, a dirty trick and pure genius!
I'd call it fraud, not genius.
Re: More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
#10At the same time, a dirty trick and pure genius!
I'd call it fraud, not genius.
Sure it's a fraud, but like something from a comedy movie. Most of the time frauds are incredibly boring and time-consuming to explain. Especially financial frauds are often hidden behind layers upon layers of obfuscation. Now THAT'S what I call planning ahead!
EDIT: ...and I'll gladly pay the karma cost for that reply!