In the case below, the original source material is given along with a sample of student work. determine the type of plagiarism by clicking the appropriate radio button.
student version
people aren't good at being random. when trying to mimic the results of repeatedly flipping a coin and recording heads or tails, people forget that "if a fair coin toss comes up heads thirty times in a row, the next toss is still equally likely to be heads or tails" and this results in people putting down "too many reversals, and too few strings of heads, in their successive guesses" (dixit & nalebuff, 1991, p. 184).
original version
psychologists have found that people tend to forget that a head is just as likely to be followed by a head as by a tail; therefore they have too many reversals, and too few strings of heads, in their successive guesses. if a fair coin toss comes up heads thirty times in a row, the next toss is still equally likely to be heads or tails.
which of the following is true for the student version above?
(a) word-for-word plagiarism
(b) paraphrasing plagiarism
(c) this is not plagiarism