She says that to VG. According to Kjerkol, the similarities were an editing error. – My fellow student and I have today gone through the textual similarities that the media have pointed out regarding the reproduction of interviews with the informants, says Kjerkol and continues: – We have found that the textual similarities in summarizing the interviewees’ views are connected to the fact that in an earlier version of the assignment had a discussion part where we reviewed our findings and conclusions compared to findings in previous assignments. – In the final editing, we chose to remove this part from the assignment, but we now see that wording was left in two places – and then without reference to the previous assignment. It shouldn’t have happened, she tells the newspaper. Kjerkol maintains to VG that the informants are “known and unique for our task”. – The data we base our thesis on has been collected through interviews with our informants, analyzed by us, and the discussion and conclusions are ours. Our informants are department managers in the home service. Municipality confirms informant contact in Kjerkol’s master’s thesis Health Minister Ingvil Kjerkol denied on Saturday having copied parts of another master’s thesis in the thesis she and a fellow student submitted in 2021. She explains similarities in text by the fact that they have used the same method. At the same time, similarities have also emerged in the sections dealing with informants – those interviewed in the thesis. Four department heads with responsibility for home residents and residents in residential centers in Stjørdal municipality were invited to an in-depth interview in connection with the task. Communications manager in Stjørdal municipality, Lene Fjellstad, confirms to news that the municipality was involved. – Based on what we have understood, it was a good experience. And they (the informants, journ.anm.) have subsequently read through the thesis, says Fjellstad. – Do they recognize themselves in what is written? – I have not spoken to all the department heads, but I have spoken to one. In any case, she said that she recognized herself in what was written. She felt she was portrayed in the right way. Professor: – The most common excuse Law professor Tarjei Bekkedal at the University of Oslo assessed Kjerkol’s master’s thesis and the texts with similar passages on Saturday. On Sunday, he tells news that the type of explanation Kjerkol is now giving will never be accepted in “cheating cases” he has been involved in assessing. Law professor Tarjei Bekkedal at the University of Oslo. Photo: Eva Dobos – It is the most common excuse, that they have inserted text that they have forgotten to remove. But then the follow-up question becomes: Why cut other people’s text into your own text to ensure quality instead of just reading the other text, he says. Bekkedal says that he has been responsible for the master’s theses at the law faculty for six years, around 2,400 discoveries. Of these, 10-15 have been treated as fraud cases. – The second follow-up question then becomes: If this text was cut in to ensure quality and you just forgot to cut it out, how does it fit seamlessly and integrated into your own discussion? – This type of explanation is never accepted – Kjerkol said on “Dagsrevyen” that this coincidence was due to coincidence. Now she says that they have cut in from other texts, but forgot to cut out. Then one would ask: If you have cut in from other texts here, and there are between 15 and 20 other cases of great textual similarity, is it conceivable that you also cut in text at the other points? says Bekkedal. – What do you think about the credibility? – These types of explanations are never accepted as they stand, because they are not credible. Now that we have reached that point, it usually doesn’t work, because it is difficult to give a credible answer, says the law professor. On news Dagsrevyen on Saturday, the Minister of Health responded to the accusations as follows.
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