Experimental History

Experimental History

Please cheat, I'm begging you

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Adam Mastroianni
Dec 05, 2023
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Long ago, during the pandemic, I ran a series of trivia competitions on the internet. Obviously, when everybody's sitting in their own living room, you have no idea if people are cheating. So the idea was: why not write trivia questions where cheating is encouraged? As in, Google away, see if it helps you (it usually won't).1 This led t…

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