Timeline for How do I lower the similarity index percentage in iThenticate?
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| Jul 3 at 12:49 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @hiccups The similarity score is not actually what's telling OP they've copied something, though. If they've copied without quoting, that's the problem, not the similarity. If they've copied without quoting but then edited enough to trick the similarity score, that's still equally a problem. Worse, the similarity score may encourage this obfuscation behavior that resolves similarity while preserving plagiarism. So, the similarity score provides no additional information that the author doesn't already have about how they wrote their paper. That's why they should not use a similarity score. | |
| Jul 3 at 4:40 | comment | added | Anonymous | I must in good conscience downvote this, because per the OP's comments, its use is mandated. Ignoring it seems unwise. | |
| Jul 3 at 4:00 | comment | added | hiccups | "Ignore it, you've identified bad software" -- why? I agree with the rest of your answer, but according to the body of the question there are 20(!) instances that have been flagged, each ranging from ~100(!!) to over 1000(!!!) words. In this case I think the software is doing exactly what it was designed to do... | |
| Jul 2 at 14:42 | history | edited | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2 at 13:48 | history | answered | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |