Fuck AI

That explain SO MUCH (meaning, the entire thing).

The implication being that if you use AI to do your homework and score highly on it, when it comes time to take the exam you'll do very badly. If you don't use AI to do your homework, your exam scores will more or less match your homework scores.

Still, the shapes of the curves are weird. I guess it suggests that students scoring around 100 on their homework are probably not relying on AI overly much, so their exam scores are still decently high. But, every student who has a higher homework score is relying on AI and, as a result, their exams suffer?

What really sucks about this is that I don't think students have the self-discipline to not use AI. I'm old enough now to know that cutting corners to get good grades is dumb if it means I'm not learning. But, I wasn't smart enough to know that back then. I absolutely would have cut corners to get those good grades and get through the homework more quickly. My parents wouldn't have approved, but they weren't technologically sophisticated enough to stop me.

Thank you. Spent entirely way too long figuring out WTF those axis were supposed to be.

Thank you.

Meanwhile on Lemmy: 3 downvotes.

I’m getting too old for this

EDIT: nevermind, I misread. I thought you were complaining about the one you posted... However, the image used by op is still a fairly obvious graph.

Edit 2: the axis of the graph posted by op are also clearly defined, vertical is exam scores, horizontal is homework. The definition shows above and below the graph itself.

It seems fairly obvious to me. It shows the clear mismatch between homework scores and test scores of AI users, where higher homework scores using AI correlate to lower test scores, clearly indicating that there is no learning, when compared to non-ai users, where higher homework scores directly translate to higher test scores as well.

This is actually a very good chart to explain outcomes. It shows that there's a positive linear relationship between homework and exam scores for students that don't use ai, and a terrible relationship for students that do use ai

Disagree-- line graphs are good for most continuous x axes, not just time. There's no reason to group the homework scores but not the exam scores, as most usages of a bar graph here would, or to use a bar graoh with 1 bar per possible hw score (which is basically just a line chart anyways).

The issue with the chart is just that the axes aren't labelled well at all. X is hw, Y is exam, and it looks like rather than raw score it's using... score divided by the average score, as a %? So how much better or worse the score is than the average, as a percentage?

It got me confused too at first but once you think about it it makes a lot of sense : the gray line is mostly straight, efforts get rewarded, but the more they use AI in homework, the worst they do on exams, even worst than the worst of the no AI crowd

Funny is that when I saw the graph I immediately thought that most people would be confused.

I've seen the term "cognitive surrender" being thrown around for this and I think they're two very nice terms to describe what's happening to our society right now

dumb people have more kids

That factor is valid too.

Lemmy is pretty unfriendly to anti-intellectualism, thankfully.

He had a bad grade in French language and literature

6 is the best grade in Switzerland

Promotion at work also isn't about being the best at your job.

Between social requirements and gaming metrics, it's a wonder we haven't collapsed yet.

You're right, homework was invented as punishment