While I was lucky enough to not need Examity during my undergrad at one of the universities in this article, I heard many complaints from my peers about it, and everyone echoes the view that it increases test anxiety FAR more than an in-person, in-classroom test. I have even heard of friends getting "flagged" for having pets in the room. If the proctor hears background noise, or if you move your head "suspiciously" to one side, you might be accused of cheating.
I know it's a difficult problem to solve, but I think instructors should focus on creating assessments that don't need to be proctored. Maybe focus more on essays, practical applications, or projects? Examity in some ways strikes me as a crutch for teachers who don't want to put in the effort to adjust their assessments to a new environment.
Tele-medicine could be a part of this - I have seen a rise in online services where patients can receive a diagnosis and some prescriptions by text/video chat with a doctor or nurse. I think this will likely continue expanding, perhaps even including decentralized, robotic surgery (see Intuitive Surgical), though I doubt this will ever be fully automated.
Good point - I would guess that Boeing's process is a much longer and more extensive waterfall (i.e. one major iteration on a large scale), whereas smaller companies like SpaceX go through the waterfall for multiple shorter iterations. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, I assume.
Agreed - I used VISSIM for some work in a university transportation research lab, and it was very interesting after learning how to use it - but both expensive and very intricate to learn. It even supports other types of transportation, like rail networks. It would be great to have a simplified version or some kind of middle ground to help people understand these complex systems.
Does the "pretty weak legal protection of user data" matter in this case though? There are no accounts or cookies (by default at least), and DDG's privacy policy states they don't log or store any user data.
For me, that's enough, but I understand if others don't want to take DDG at their word on not storing any logs - but at that point, you'd probably want to be using Tor or a VPN anyway.
From my view, I think it must depend on your use case and common searches. I've been using DDG for years now without any major qualms on search results. For my purposes it finds what I need, and for the few cases where it doesn't (perhaps 1 out of 50 searches?) it's easy enough to just add on a !g to my query to use Google instead.
Every time I do the !g anymore, I never find Google has any better results. Usually, I just get 32,000,000 more results listed that are just auto-generated junk. Most of those don't even have the words in them that I searched for, so I don't understand how they come up.
I know it's a difficult problem to solve, but I think instructors should focus on creating assessments that don't need to be proctored. Maybe focus more on essays, practical applications, or projects? Examity in some ways strikes me as a crutch for teachers who don't want to put in the effort to adjust their assessments to a new environment.