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In reply to the discussion: Carson's Lie about being named Honest Student came from Yale Parody Paper [View all]M.G.
(250 posts)Carson's autobiography claims he was the sole student who showed up to retake a psychology test and was awarded the honor of being named most honest student, then had his photo taken and got a ten dollar prize from the teacher.
As "proof" of this account, he cited a story which itself cited a campus parody newspaper, essentially Yale's equivalent of The Onion, which had a bit where "several" students showed up to retake a psychology test that was supposedly destroyed.
It's a little vague since we dont yet have the parody paper being cited, but it sounds like the joke intended by the parody paper here was that a psychology class was doing an experiment to test students to see how they reacted to a fakeout.
Nothing in the parody version cited in the main paper mentions one student retaking the class - 'several' did - and no mentions of any photo or ten dollar award given out.
Basically, it sounds like a rather silly joke by Yale's parody paper was cited in the main paper, and Carson had some vague memory of reading about this spoof, then recast it as a morality play with himself as hero.