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And why do we care in a real-world sense whether this student has cheated in general relativity? If that person goes to a physics lab, he would be found out eve
by eecsninja 8y ago
And why do we care in a real-world sense whether this student has cheated in general relativity? If that person goes to a physics lab, he would be found out eventually.
In a real-world sense, cheating hurts nobody except the person doing it, if even that.
- trendia 8y agoSure, they might be found out when they fail their oral quals, but it would be much easier for everyone if there were a much faster way to find them out, such as a low grade from a school that strictly enforces anti-cheating policies.
- shabble 8y agoWould you want to be that surgeon's first patient?
- alonmower 8y agoThat's not true at all. One example (there are more): Say a student cheats at Foo University and then gets a job at a physics lab. They clearly don't know the material that they purportedly got good grades studying. Now say, for the sake of the argument, that this happens a few more times. As a hiring manager at the lab I'm going to be less likely to seriously consider candidates from Foo University (because all of the 4.0 graduates I've hired from there don't know anything). Others will live need to work harder to overcome this bias because of the action of the cheaters. It's very myopic (and a very difficult position to seriously hold unless you're rationalizing past behavior) to assume that cheating doesn't hurt anyone.