: Re: How likely is the "five consecutive word rule" to detect "random," as opposed to intentional plagiarism? I refer to the old fable that if you set enough monkeys at enough keyboards for a long

If we're genuinely talking just five consecutive words: yes, that could happen by chance.

But plagiarism is not just about five words in the middle of a 120-page thesis. It's lifting ideas, plots, characters, paragraphs, pages. See the Opal Mehta mess for an example of what's really plagiarism.

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