"Come on, Jiahui," Chi Zhouxu finished shaking hands with Liu Kai and immediately encouraged his girlfriend beside him.

"Yeah," Tang Jiahui nodded with a sweet and shy smile.

Director Tao continued to announce the list in order of defense, "The next one is our Professor Shen's student, named Tang Jiahui. Professor Shen, please give a brief introduction."

Before each student defends, he will write a simple 300-200-word introduction to himself, including name, date of birth, major, mentor, honors received during school, as well as scientific research projects and paper publications he has participated in while studying. .

After writing, submit it to the instructor. Before the defense, the instructor will briefly introduce his students to the experts according to the written introduction.

After Shen Qingyi finished his introduction, Tang Jiahui was already standing in front of the podium.

"Good afternoon, experts. My name is Tang Jiahui. The topic of my defense is..."

Tang Jiahui, like Chi Zhouxu, was well prepared, and she even looked more prepared than Chi Zhouxu.

Because she was well prepared, Tang Jiahui was not asked many questions. After she stepped down, some defense experts praised her for her detailed work and said that if she went deeper, she could become a doctoral thesis.

Although Zhou Mo was sitting behind Shen Qingyi and could not see Shen Qingyi's expression, at this moment, it was not necessary to think about how proud Shen Qingyi was as a mentor.

When the master's degree student upstairs began his defense, Zhou Mo was extremely energetic.

Needless to say, in the ppt presentation stage, whoever can answer the defense without writing the manuscript two or three times and rehearsing it ten or eight times is generally quite fluent.

But despite this, Zhou Mo still discovered some problems in his ppt.

When experts comment and ask questions, they generally start from the perspective of innovation and research methods, and some minor issues are often ignored.

Zhou Mo turned around and looked for such small problems, such as typos, irregular labeling of p values ​​and statistics, and failure to write the test level α...

After the experts’ questions, Director Tao would symbolically ask those present, “Do other students have any questions?”

Zhou Mo raised his hand: "In his results section, many statistical values ​​were not marked. Also, the three-line table is not standardized."

Everyone present was stunned.

Including the classmates on the stage, the reaction was slow for a moment. This kind of problem is a minor problem. It is probably just like a few typos when writing an argumentative essay. It is innocuous and does not affect the quality of the composition.

But Zhou Mo raised it, and as the respondent, he had to respond.

The student on the stage apologized: "Thank you, senior, for pointing out the problem. It's true that I didn't do it carefully. I'll correct it when I get down."

The people who came on stage after him were even more nervous. On such an occasion, who could not be nervous when meeting someone as critical as Zhou Mo?

Perhaps it is because Shen Qingyi's group does not have the style of revising the ppt word for word and sentence by sentence upstairs, and only focuses on the general context and final result presentation. The subsequent students really have all kinds of minor problems.

In the end, Zhou Mo was asked to find a more serious problem.

"Your chi-square value is so small, can you conclude that p is less than 0.05?" Zhou Mo felt something was wrong.

The student on the stage said nervously: "That's how it works out."

Zhou Mo's carefulness also made other big guys pay attention to this issue. Professor Yuan pointed to the ppt page and said, "You are absolutely wrong. Let me ask you, what is the distribution of the chi-square test? Think about its distribution carefully. What does the function curve look like? Then answer."

The students on the stage were completely frozen.

"I, I...Professor Yuan...I'll go down and take a look." The student could only use the all-purpose answer: "Go down and take a look."

Professor Yuan was very dissatisfied and glared at him, "Although we are not majoring in mathematics, which method we use is not in statistics? If you don't understand such a basic principle, how can you apply it? Is your result really true?

Is it? It’s not made, right?”

When he said this, everyone present was shocked.

Fraudulent research papers are a taboo, even now, even if you graduate with a master's or doctorate degree, if you find something wrong with your thesis one day, your degree will still be revoked.

"No, Professor Yuan, definitely not." The students on the stage were anxious and at a loss, and could only look at their tutor.

It was his mentor who answered the questions and solved the problem for him before he gave up.

After him, every student who came up, Professor Yuan, had to ask some basic questions. Everyone had a medical background and did not have a strong mathematical background. The projects they did were imitating others. They used whatever methods others used.

Method, I have never delved into why this method is used.

Due to long-term thinking inertia and lack of understanding, when encountering very basic statistical questions raised by Professor Yuan, everyone was dumbfounded and unable to answer them.

Professor Yuan's face became increasingly ugly, and the questions he asked became more and more difficult. By the time he got his PhD, the question-and-answer session had lengthened from twenty minutes to more than half an hour.

The whole process made people panic.

The further to the back, the greater the psychological pressure.

Even the faces of the instructors no longer had the initial warmth on their faces, instead they all looked worried.

Tang Jiahui pulled Zhou Mo and murmured in a low voice: "Fortunately, Xiaochi and I talked early. I would be scared to death if I had to wait in the queue."

Zhou Mo smiled and said nothing.

When all students' defenses are over, everyone except the defense experts will be dismissed.

After half an hour of decision-making, everyone passed the defense qualification without any surprise.

The students were relieved, but the instructors were not.

Director Tao called the tutors away alone and said that he would hold a small meeting. Professor Yuan would also be present at the meeting.

Needless to say, we all know that this defense exposed huge problems and the instructors were going to be upset.

If the instructors have a hard time, the students' life will not be easy either.

Zhou Mo took everyone together to clean up the conference room after the defense.

The students upstairs were also tidying up with interest.

Some people complained: "What are all this? We bought so many things, and we didn't see the experts looking down on us. We bought so many things in vain."

"Hey, just wait. When the teacher comes back from the meeting, we will have to be scolded again."

"I spent a lot of money and received a lot of scolding. This reply... made me feel cowardly."

Almost all the students upstairs expressed their anger at the failure of their defense on the "feast" that was all over the table.

There was even an angry doctor who threw the rag on the table and said, "Where is Ren Huaibo? He has done so many useless things. The money he co-authored is not his, so he just spent it randomly, right?"

Just as Chi Zhouxu was about to speak, Zhou Mo stopped him, shook his head slightly, and signaled him not to get involved.

Ren Huaibo just came back from taking out the garbage. As soon as he entered the door, he was blocked by several people, asking about the use of funds for this defense.

The students raised 30,000 yuan, but almost 10,000 yuan was spent just to prepare the defense venue, food, drinks and flowers.
Chapter completed!