There has always been some cheating on tests.


Maybe you hung out with a different crowd than I did. All my study was out
of Engineering classes and ARRL Handbook and License manual for the regs. I
was taught the code from a CW op who officiated my Novice exam. We didn't
proceed until I could do on the air QSOs in front of him on the club
station. And by the way, everyone that I studied and did code practice
with, got ham tickets. Even a Mexican kid who barely spoke English. Those
that bitched and moaned and threw tantrums over it, didn't want to after
all. Glad not to have them.

You are correct that "weeder" tests can't be 100% effective. But if you
think that they don't have an impact, then why test at all? If nothing is
100% effective then game is up? No more testing then? They went that route
with CB and they couldn't even give people a litteracy test. I.E. getting
them to sign a paper stating they would abide by the rules. FCC gave up on
it and let it go fallow. The result was dealing dope and scoring hookers in
between hetrodynes, pornographic tirades and general orgies of funny noises,
wailing and knashing of teeth of the damned. The rest were chased from the
band.

Maybe you can think of some test or hoop besides CW to discourage the
people
that act out like morons because they lack self-control.

Sure. A psychology test...

So, essentially a pseudoscientific approach? Ridiculous. Lets keep it all
above board. Although Psychology is a fascinating study, there are aspects
that can lead one astray. If my previous post was a psychology test, I
might have failed you.

The whole Psychology idea reminds me of the Russian fake spyware scanner
that pops up and tells you that you're infected and you will have to send
$50 and download the cleaner to fix you up. You the pay the money, install
the program and you're hooked up with endless spyware and adware until you
can't boot up anymore and wipe your hard drive and reinstall Windows. No
Thanks. You should know that answer cuts both ways senior. Even if you're
buying the Psych.

All you have to do is make it difficult for those with short attention spans
and little patience. Then follow up with peer pressure. But you have to
ignore the tantrums and crying jags and reinforce good behavior. Until
parents and governments realize that fact, society will continue to go
fallow. Peer pressure is what happens when people begin imitating one
another. That is how whole groups go nuts. It is how great teams succeed.
It doesn't happen overnight. It is the result of people pushing the
envelope and others tolerating or encouraging it to the point where the
behavior becomes commonplace and acceptable and encouraged. I never spent
any time on Westcars. Glad I never spent time in Nazi Germany either.

We don't have a code test anymore so it is a moot point. It is left to peer
pressure and the skills tests. I will still use Morse Code because it is
useful. It won't be useful if no one knows how to do it. It is even more
useful because other people who use it aren't anything like your 75m phone
Westcars people. This is all the proof I need that it works. But I guess
you don't have that proof, do you?