Tag: competition
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Commons Picture of the Year
Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation — the parent organisation of many well-loved projects, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikiversity — runs the Commons Picture of the Year competition. The aim of the competition is to identify “the best freely-licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status”; an accolade awarded by…
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Competition Increases Cheating, Not Performance
By increasing the competitiveness of a task–by rewarding top performers, for example–performance levels do not improve and instead the rate of cheating increases among the worst performers. That’s what researchers discovered when they used a maze-based computer task to determine how increasing competitive pressure influences cheating and performance levels. Half the students were paid according…