Except for N6MJ ..he is a mutant
73
Steve KL7SB
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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
James Cain
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 4:24 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Cheating
Contesters are human? Who knew?
-- K1TN
> I'm not in favor of inspectors, mostly because I don't think they are
> at all practical. But the problem isn't going to go away ... it's
> human nature to cheat. Seriously --- there have been lots of studies
> on the the topic of cheating and what variables make people more
> likely to cheat under what circumstances and Radiosport happens to
> have a majority of those factors. Out of pure curiosity I once did
> some casual research on the subject and even (per his request) sent a
> summary to Randy, K5ZD when he was doing a rules review some time ago.
>
>
> You can believe me or not, but I'm telling you that we're wired to
> cheat in competitive environments, or when something of perceived
> value (time, money, glory, gratification, etc) is at stake. I could
> give several everyday examples that would make almost all of us take
> pause. We simply are not inherently honest. Even our "morality" mostly
> boils down to learned and ingrained social pressures. Lots of hams
> seem to think that humans are fundamentally honest and that the urge
> to cheat is some sort of aberration. From an anthropological point of
> view, it's the other way around.
>
> There may be a way to come up with a contest format without cheating,
> but it won't be because people didn't try.
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
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