2008nov26. Cardhouse consigliere Tom B raised an exception with the New Yorker excerpt concerning plagiarism in college applications. The original article is nowhere to be found, but an article referencing the study seems to indicate that, at the very least, students from Cambridge and Oxford were only a part of the larger sample, whereas the New Yorker article pins “five per cent of applicants to Oxford and Cambridge” to the wall with online-based plagiarism. Wrong. Tom pointed out other bits of hand-waving in the excerpt, but as he writes, “This is the kind of digging that the journalists should be doing surely – that’s to a large extent the point of them.”