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I've grappled with this before, and even before people were using AI, take home exams were always open-book by default because of course people will look things up. The irony is, since AI, I've had a lot worse essay submissions-- they simply get shit wrong a lot more relying on AI (especially in my statistics class).
And my stats class only needs to do basic stuff to show work; I let them use excel/sheets to check work. They can't even type in "=correl()" properly and would rather take a photo of the data and send it to ChatGPT. AI gives them wildly wrong steps and it's so obviously wrong...
Funny: I'm a doctoral student in a statistical program and I have thought, since I started, that you can't really use AI to cheat at stats. They can't even get the math right much of the time. I wouldn't even want to imagine what an essay would look like.
ChatGPT is good for ensuring that you understand a concept or, perhaps, help setting up a table or a specific formula. Not so good at actually doing STAT homework, though. (Note: I've never tried to cheat, but have seen how bad some of the responses are.)
I've seen it used very occasionally as a study tool, which is generally fine until it gets it wrong. Just like you can use Khan Academy (or I guess, YouTube but there's again a chance it's wrong lol). The craziest is when they use an AI delusional statistical theory that doesn't exist, lol.
So, as you can see, the Reverse Bayesian Transformation has resulted in a normalized distribution. While n = 3, this logistic regression clearly provides a value of 0.75. Therefore, we conclude that there is a statistically significant relationship between cat owners and people who never pay taxes.