cahn

Oh wow, those two distributions are so stark! Like, the main distributions are actually pretty damn consistent with each other, by eyeballing, but that spike of perfect scores in 2025...

Shocking that they did not try to do something about AI cheating considering AI cheating has been in the news a whole lot... (Or did they not realize in time that AI would be good enough to solve these kinds of math problems?)

So basically MAA is doing SOMETHING, no one knows exactly what, and completely breaking any kind of transparency, AND basically changing how all this is done at the very last minute (there was NO communication beforehand that cutoffs would not be released this year,

This is giving me Chengdu Worldcon Hugo nominations shenanigans flashbacks!

E's and my best guess is that they are doing some sort of complicated cheating-detection and rejecting kids based on that, even if they are above the secret cutoff.

That would be my guess as well... (And I do think it's very possible that they're looking at stuff like tab changes or something else other than scores, if that's what they're doing.)

I've been saying things to her like, "you should try not to go to the bathroom too much during the JMO in case someone thinks you're cheating," and I feel awful that I have to say things like that.

:((