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文商社科一定参加！牛剑藤校加速器John Locke放题了！

文章作者：小永哥留学发布时间：2023-02-01 21:24:37 点击量：375

今日，号称“文商社科赛事天花板”—John Locke论文赛事终于！放题了！！

John Locke论文赛事是由英国牛津独立教育组织John Locke Institute与美国普林斯顿大学等院校教授合作组织的学术项目。

图片来自：John Locke官网

优越的“出身”让John Locke赛事成为英美院校的“人才库”。很多参赛学生最终都成功拿到了英国牛津大学、剑桥大学、美国的哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学等英美顶尖大学的录取。

根据官方数据显示:

● 2020年: 投稿约3000, 入围率约26%;

● 2021年: 投稿约4000, 入围率约23%;

● 2022年: 投稿约7000, 入围率约20%.

图片图源 | John Locke官网统计

学生进入英国顶尖院校比例:

牛津占比第一, 剑桥第二

其实，John Locke比赛不仅受到文商社科申请者们的追捧, 理工科选手为了能在千篇一律的申请材料中杀出重围, 成为英美顶尖学府越来越向往的文理兼修人才, 也纷纷杀入其阵营。

图片图源 | John Locke官网统计

学生进入美国顶尖院校比例

目前，2023年John Locke今年7类科目的论文题目已全部放出，每个主题下有4道命题，参赛者需要任选其一，完成一篇不超过2000词的论文进行提交。具体题目如下：

Philosophy：哲学

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

Q2.In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

Q3.Is tax theft?

Politics：政治

Q1.Do the results of elections express the will of the people?

Q2.If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?

Q3.What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?

Economics：经济

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?

Q2.In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.

If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?

Q3.What would happen if we banned billionaires?

History：历史

Q1.How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?

Q2.Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?

Q3.Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?

Psychology：心理学

Q1.Can happiness be measured?

Q2. In surveys conducted in the United States, significantly more than half the respondents reported that they believed themselves to be more attractive than the median person in their country. How might we account for this?

Q3.Are beliefs voluntary?

Theology：神学

Q1.What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?

Q2.If you cannot persuade your intelligent, sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system, do you have enough reason to believe what you believe?

Q3.What was God doing before He created the cosmos?

Law：法律

Q1.Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women?

Q2.Suppose that you were contemplating, in violation of the rules of this competition, submitting an essay written for you by artificial intelligence. What would be the difference between such an act and ordinary attempted theft?

Q3.Are there too many laws?

此外，从官网发布的信息发现，今年赛制有了不少新变化，新增了注册机制、推荐人机制和晚提交机制。

新增注册要求：

注册时间为2023年3月15日-2023年5月31日23:59（GMT），如若未注册，文章将不予接收。

提交时间变化：

截止时间：2023年6月30日23：59（GMT）。

年龄限制：Senior组提交之前未满19岁，Junior组提交之前未满15岁。

费用：6月30日之前提交无手续费。

字数：正文内容不超过2000字（不包括图表、注释、参考文献和作者声明）

提交文件命名格式：名字-姓氏-类别-问题编号.pdf，例如（Alexander-Popham-Psychology-2.pdf），如若错误也将不予接收。

推荐人及邮箱地址：参赛者需要提供推荐人（学校老师或其他非亲属成年人）邮箱地址，官方将会给推荐人验证提交的文章是否为参赛者原创。

允许延迟提交：6月30日之后延迟提交，需要在7月1日之前信用卡付费20美元延迟费用，并在7月10日11:59之前提交。