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"it's hard to determine which course of study is most infested with cheating. But I'd say education is the worst."

• Alex3917 16y ago
  This isn't especially surprising considering that education students have the second lowest GRE scores of any academic field. (The lowest being public administrators.)
  • kenjackson 16y ago
    I'm not really sure how that follows. Was there some established link between GRE scores and ethics? I suspect it has as much to do with the following requirements: 1) A degree that is take-home essay heavy. 2) Very vocational -- the goal being the degree, not the learning. I'd expect business and law schools to be high on the list too, although maybe the dynamic is somewhat different for professional schools.
    • gwern 16y ago
      Suggested link is lack of brains, not lack of scruples - remember the shadow scholar's list of reasons includes 1 group that is simply too stupid to handle the work.
      • kenjackson 16y ago
        This would imply a large variance of ability in the group, not a lower average GRE score. Although it could be speculated that as the GRE score regresses to the mean (of the general population), the variance likely increases.