[CQ-Contest] Cheating

[Stephen Bloom]

Except for N6MJ ..he is a mutant

73
Steve KL7SB


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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
James Cain
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 4:24 AM
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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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