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Be careful what you wish for. Increasing the competence of fraudsters will simply make fraud harder to detect.

Had the original theory simply included a "measured" coefficient, the debunking would have been much weaker and never made it into a gotcha story for bystanders to enjoy. This was sloppy from the outset.

What we need isn't stronger technical skills, but strong self-correction mechanisms and incentive structures.

(Ironically, the management consultant who orchestrated this whole ploy is in the field of group psychology - so perhaps it was performance art all along)




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