Th4tGuyII

To be fair to Air Canada here, the compensation is just that, compensation. It isn’t meant to help you replace all your belongings, that’s what your travel insurance is for.

But even if it was meant for that, I struggle to believe that Tannous genuinely brought $3,500 worth of luggage with him that all needed like-for-like replacement with luxury goods.

I’m all for getting your money’s worth, but ripping off a system meant to help people does nothing good for anybody

Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you’re doing new research, so you’re presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.

Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they’re writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you’re much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them. In fact at that stage, I’d bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you’re barking up the wrong tree.

Genuinely. As a student I don’t think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%. There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone’s works.

I remember one lecturer telling me that they don’t really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they’re looking for patterns in what it highlights.

Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.

“Could” is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.

I’m holding my reservations until something actually comes along