[ExI] sat in jail

[Dan TheBookMan]

They were charged too. A decent summary can be found in Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal

I don't think there’s anything special about this particular bribery incident. I don’t think it’s any graver a “sin” than other corruption either. Perhaps because folks rely too much on what college someone gets into and graduates from, this seems worse, but that’s a wider problem that Bryan Caplan covers in his recent book, _The Case Against Education_.

By the way, Felicity Huffman got 14 days, but Tanya McDowell got 5 years — not for bribery but for using a friend’s address to enroll her son in kindergarten. Five years! See:

https://www.theroot.com/felicity-huffman-gets-2-weeks-in-jail-for-gaming-educat-1838111418

If there’s a sin here, it’s sending someone to prison for five years for faking her address.

Regards,

Dan
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> On Sep 14, 2019, at 7:58 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> There’s a big deal going on about some movie star bribing someone to rig her daughter’s SAT in order to get into Stanford.  Got caught, now she gets 14 days in the slammer.
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> I can’t find anywhere what happened to the person who received the bribe.  By my way of thinking, the receiver of the bribe, perpetrator of the actual cheating committed a much bigger crime than the person who offers the bribe.  I worked for a while as a test administrator.  I understand that is a grave sin indeed to compromise the admissions process in any way, particularly messing with the SAT.
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> Anyone know?  Or know where to find info?
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> spike
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