Steve Sailer fans, and anyone interested in true facts about human nature, will enjoy this story from People magazine, December 5th.
Here are two identical twin sisters, Kayla and Kellie Bingham.
#Twins Win Lawsuit After Medical School Alleged Cheating
— Kramer & Pollack, LLP (@Kramer_Pollack) December 16, 2022
-Kayla & Kellie Bingham were in their second year of medical school when they were accused of "signaling one another and passing notes" during an exam
-They withdrew from the school & filed lawsuithttps://t.co/nXW9AZETOm pic.twitter.com/KBUXWnbVty
Back in May of 2016 they were both second-year students at the Medical University of South Carolina.
They took an exam, sitting four or five feet apart but unable to see each other. A faculty member noticed that they fidgeted in similar ways, and that many of their incorrect answers to the exam questions were the same.
They were accused of cheating and their subsequent careers at the college went ahead under a cloud of distrust and gossip, to the degree that Kayla and Kellie both abandoned their hopes of a medical career and left the college.
In 2017 they filed a lawsuit against the college. At trial last month an expert on human genetics testified that the kinds of similarities that raised the accusation of cheating were normal for identical twins.
A jury found in the twins’ favor and the court awarded them $750,000 each. Score one for the human sciences.
