26% isn't concerning to anyone with a brain unless you're doing some real novel shit. That moronic program will toss that out for citing a title.
First the rainbow tables, now this. This must be an interesting thesis, even if its academic value might be ... questionable.
Googled the Professor, found plenty of Screenshots like this and an article from 2022
Wait but… is that actually a thing in Kenya? I only have heard first hand accounts of school systems in a handful of countries in Africa (not Kenya, mostly west side) but consistently I’ve been shocked by either the severity of punishment for basically any form of failure or dishonor or for the prevalence of fear as the administrative motivator-of-choice. (One was just a few months ago I think in c/offmychest where a high schooler was describing their beatings for tardiness, bad grades, and other minor infractions. I think I commented on it.) Maybe they’re for real? (Edit: pronouns)
This gives me strong Samir! You are breaking the car! vibes.
Okay, please someone explain this video to me. Is samir blind? Is this like, a test, to see if a blind man can drive with a navigator? Why is there a navigator telling him about medium lefts? Should a driver not be able to see a medium left coming up? What is happening here?
Adding on, something I didn't realize for a while is that the driver practices the course and writes their own instructions. Then the co-pilot relays during the race.
This is rally driving.
The guy yelling is called the co-pilot. Their job is to know what turns, speeds, and terrain is coming up to convey to the pilot/driver. They're going so fast that they literally don't know what's coming up or how to take the corners, so they depend almost entirely on their copilot to tell them about what turns and what speed they should be at before the turn and then they convert that into really badass Rally powersliding action.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/samir-youre-breaking-the-car-was-a-career-ruining-hit-job
Tl;Dr: it's heavily edited and posted by a rival to discredit them.
They should have pivoted from rally racing to rally racing live streaming. Dudes would have been legends
this can't be real
Have you ever worked in academia? This kind of email could definitely be real, not saying this one necessarily is though
I have never worked in academia, but I've spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts ... this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student
The way I read it is that they forgot to cite sources, so technically it's plagiarism. I didn't take it as a bad faith effort of passing off someone else's work as their own. Otherwise I would agree, I don't think they'd treat the situation so flippantly.
I don't know, the line "at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name" implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it's exaggeration for humor's sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources. Regardless, it's so flippant and playful it feels like it was written as a joke, maybe even written to make a meme, hence it doesn't feel like a real email.
That's true
It's not "flippantly" - the reviewer's opinion is there, and the whole message is just a "get your shit together", but in a more polite and ironical form. It's not an official or final review yet, but if I would receive it, I'd get the idea of what happens when the paper is officialy submitted.
Sounds like you would be shocked by the reality if the situation.
who signs an email with "first supervisor"?
it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn't sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either
Would it actually be an arrestsble offence though?
Depends on the country, I think some actually do criminally punish fraud on the public research dime.
I know there are countries where the government can revoke your PhD if you fuck up enough.
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