CogniPrep Builds 56 Assessment Pages, Each Answering Whether a Test Can Be Cheated

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CogniPrep created a separate page for each of 56 assessment providers, all reaching the same conclusion that cheating is not possible. The author argues that cheat resistance is a property of the test instrument itself rather than the employer using it, so the cluster is keyed to instruments instead of companies. Each registry entry carries seven text fields, which the author checked for uniqueness, finding no repeats across 392 strings. To verify the published pages differ, the author measured shared eight-word sequences between page pairs, finding overlap of 12 to 21 percent. After subtracting shared header, navigation and footer text, the remaining body overlap is only a few percent.

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