70% of college students admit to cheating

[emazur]

You can watch the full vid on abc Nightline homepage - I'm not sure how to link to it but here's a clip

 

[Philhelm]

File this under: College degree does not equal education or intelligence.

 

[Matt Collins]

How do they define "cheating"??



That being said I'll never forget in my econ class the prof told us it was a take-home test, and to turn it in to an envelope hanging on his office door by a specific time.

When I went to go turn mine in there were 4 or 5 other students in the class pouring through everyone else's tests looking for the right answers.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Yeah, cheating has been quite prominent for a good while. LRC had an article a while ago about a fellow who ghost-writes papers for students;everything from term papers and essays to doctoral papers. He apparently makes good money doing it.

 

[Natalie]

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[heavenlyboy34]

I think it is way easier to just do your work than it is to cheat. The time spent figuring out how to cheat could be spent doing your paper.

This ^^ I never had to cheat on papers and I always got high marks on them. It's just a matter of using time effectively.

 

[specsaregood]

Yeah, cheating has been quite prominent for a good while. LRC had an article a while ago about a fellow who ghost-writes papers for students;everything from term papers and essays to doctoral papers. He apparently makes good money doing it.

I wrote some papers for $$ in school. Always pissed me off when the papers I wrote for others ended up getting a better grade than the one I wrote for myself.

 

[Jordan]

I don't really care. It all depends on the kind of cheating.

For example: those tests where it "locks down" all the browsers on your computer. Go grab another one and use it to look up the answers, that's not cheating, that's being resourceful.

Having someone else write your paper? Cheating.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I wrote some papers for $$ in school. Always pissed me off when the papers I wrote for others ended up getting a better grade than the one I wrote for myself.

I wish I'd had the time and sense to do that. /facepalm I was always good at writing papers, and could've used the money to pay bills.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I know people who would take your class for the semester for the right price... code name: Van Wilder

With technology today, it's very easy to cheat on everything.

Hell, I got a A in a class I didn't even take the final examine.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I wrote some papers for $$ in school. Always pissed me off when the papers I wrote for others ended up getting a better grade than the one I wrote for myself.

Lol! Even in the most "objective" subject, grading is still subjective...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Hate to generalize, but it's ironic that some of the cultures that emphasize education so much also have a propensity for "group effort" (cheating).

 

[BlackTerrel]

Not surprising. Also copying someone's homework once in 4 years isn't exactly the worst offense - depends how deep they want to go.

 

[Baptist]

(I like the old embarrassment emoticon better).

ROFL. I am also finding some things I do not like as much. I am having a hard time doing advanced searches for really old threads that I know exist.

That website sounds like a rad idea though. I am going to show it to my teachers.

 

[Theocrat]

Reality Check

File this under: College degree does not equal education or intelligence.

No, but it does place one in the category of opportunity to get a higher-paying job than those without one. It's an inconvenient truth.

 

[dannno]

ROFL. I am also finding some things I do not like as much. I am having a hard time doing advanced searches for really old threads that I know exist.

Ya I made a thread about the emoticons, Josh said he was going to change them but hasn't yet. I also have a hard time searching for old threads that I know exist.

 

[t0rnado]

This is how I think Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman passed Intro to Microeconomics and Intro to Macroeconomics.

 

[outspoken]

100% of politicians admit to telling the truth all the time. I'm not sure when it happened but somewhere along the way America lost its conscience... we put so much emphasis on making money, willing, being the best, that we no longer have an internal capacity to determine right from wrong. Basically, if something can be gotten away with that we should do it. Our politicians are a wonderful illustration of what happens when people operate without a conscience... and a law degree. at some point, it is going to catch up with us.

 

[torchbearer]

didn't cheat, didn't need to.

 

[Philhelm]

No, but it does place one in the category of opportunity to get a higher-paying job than those without one. It's an inconvenient truth.

That's partially true, and is a symptom of credentialism. Hell, these days a college degree is needed to do jobs that those with a high school diploma had previously done. It's all a sham.