I’m having trouble putting a term to similar situations:<p>Where people (whether government, corporate, nonprofit) get in over their head and create these sorts of problems while trying to solve something they don’t appropriately understand.<p>There’s a lot of poor decision making in our institutions ranging from HOA’s, multinational nonprofits, and federal governments, notably in domain specific situations that require nuanced understanding.<p>Maybe we need to start introducing the concepts of circuit breakers in our rules, regulations & laws to eject when something goes wrong or doesn’t go right based on basic KPI’s.<p>Have we solved the “basics” (despite not getting those right) and are running into compounding edge cases? Do we just need people better equipped to handle these decisions? I think these sorts of problems (more broadly than the specific topic in the article) are going to be a plague on our society.
Remote proctoring software in a hetrogeneous device environment is impossible with current technology. As the EFF says, it’s snake oil. I don’t know what to do about traditionally invigilated certification exams like the bar, but I do know that it’s deeply foolish and unethical to use this stuff when you have an alternative (like universities and schools do by setting open-book coursework etc). With something like the bar, I think the only solution would be to provisionally certify these people to work for a year or two under supervision, based on the results of their degrees and make them take the exam later under controlled conditions.