Let’s begin with yet another example of a lack of understanding of the Perversity Principle, this one from a recent The Times of India report.

“Authorities in India have reportedly arrested some 300 people and expelled 600 students in connection with a massive cheating scandal in the northeastern state of Bihar, as 10th-graders from across the country sit for crucial examinations this week that will determine their educational future.

“The crackdown follows the airing of television footage this week that showed parents, relatives, and friends of the students scaling the outer walls of school buildings so they could pass cheat sheets to test-takers.

“Dozens of people—said to be family members of the students—were seen climbing the walls of an exam centre and flinging answer sheets into various rooms where their wards were writing the exam in Bihar’s western Vaishali district.”

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