Sunday, November 21, 2010

Cheaters Still Mostly Prosper

Instructor Richard Quinn of the University of Central Florida gave a lecture to his students about cheating.  Students at the University got their hands on the midterm exam for a capstone class and were caught.  He had it recorded and the video has got out and become an internet hit.
In the lecture, Prof Quinn told the class he had enough evidence from statistical analysis and other investigatory techniques to identify most cheats, but instead of handing the list over to the university authorities for discipling, he proposed a deal.
He said: “I don’t want to have to explain to your parents why you didn’t graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don’t identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course.”
Prof Quinn also added a requirement for those who came forward complete a four hour course in ethics. In return there would be no permanent record of the cheating.
So far more than 200 students have admitted to cheating.
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I find it funny that this lecturer is so shocked that so many business majors cheat.  They're business students.  What can you expect with all these kids having aspirations to work for Goldman Sachs or Citibank someday? Cheating is how you profit in life and the real world is the proof.

I wish it weren't true, but the simple fact that there are more millionaires in American NOW then there was before the financial collapse is proof that cheating the system is how you get rich in America if you aren't a movie star or an exceptional athlete.

What the original cheaters did wrong was share the exam.  How did 200 of the 600 students have the answers?  Someone was more interested in being popular with the other kids in class than was interested in getting a good grade.  That kid is never going to get rich while caring about what other people think of him.

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