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If you attribute the 20% rate to NYU, and not to my increased vigilance, then you may want to read again the latest blog post.

• sorbus 15y ago
  You believe that 20% of students everywhere cheat, then? Parables aren't exactly the best way to convey information; when I read through it, I interpreted the city as being NYU and the neighborhood as being your class, not the city as being an amalgamation of every university and college and the neighborhood as NYU.
  • Panos 15y ago
    Yes, I believe that there is a 1%-2% of blatant cheater everywhere, and a significantly bigger percentage of students that take liberties with their homework assignments. (Asking people for help, looking at solutions, collaborating in individual assignments, etc). There is no clear black and white separation of "cheaters" vs "honest" but a full spectrum of gray. Regarding the parable, I see the point and how what I wrote could be interpreted in the way that you describe. My intention was to refer to the city as the whole academic system. The "Redwich Village" is a reference to Greenwich Village, the neighborhood in NYC where NYU is located. So, Redwich Village stands for my institution, which was attacked ferociously as being the harbor of cheaters over the last few days, while people fail to recognize that this is most probably a more generic problem. You may claim that I overgeneralize without proof, but I have sufficient evidence from other people that this is the case. Especially after all the emails that I received within the last few days where people described their own experiences with cheating that were very similar (most did so anonymously, but with specific names of top universities around the world).
    • sorbus 15y ago
      Ah, that makes perfect sense; thank you for clarifying.