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Cheating in college should be punishable with prison and heavy fines. It's essentially fraud. I certainly don't think doctors who earn their credentials through
by beebmam 5y ago
Cheating in college should be punishable with prison and heavy fines. It's essentially fraud. I certainly don't think doctors who earn their credentials through cheating should be allowed to practice in any sense
- tmp_anon_22 5y agoIts an open secret that tutors do a significant portion of work for star athletes, to say nothing about punishments being different for international students caught cheating.
- slothtrop 5y agoCheats are usually foreigners who pay more tuition, so they tolerate it. Pay-to-win.
- cgrealy 5y agoThere's a shocking amount of racism in this thread.
- slothtrop 5y agoMaybe you'd care to point it out? I know people in faculty, this is what is reported. A google search would suggest the same. It's far more culturally accepted to cheat in University in certain parts of the world, e.g. India, Saudi Arabia. In fact let me do it for you, here's one article on it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/29/india-exam-cheating-internet-shutdown/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/29/india-exam-c... Stop projecting and grow up.
- mbg721 5y agoIf I've learned anything from Columbo, it's that college students who cheat on exams eventually bite off more than they can chew by rigging their Jeep to shoot their criminology professor, and get their comeuppance from a wily homicide lieutenant who pretends to be their clueless buddy. So really you just have to bide your time.
- ugh123 5y agoGreat episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2maqg-LSE5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2maqg-LSE5s
- pjbeam 5y agoYou want to take someone's freedom for cheating on an exam? That doesn't sit well with me at all.
- tylergetsay 5y agoTheres no freedom to be a doctor
- beebmam 5y agoThe same could be said for people who fudge numbers to lie about income. Yes, honest society deserves to be protected from these frauds.
- oceanplexian 5y agoIf cheating with some bluetooth headset actually worked, something is deeply broken with your academic system. All that it proves is that you give out participation awards to people who can memorize facts over actual problem solving. Memorization doesn't take a lot of intelligence.
- digitallyfree 5y agoIf the implant played back an audio recording of his notes or something, then sure. But if it allowed the student to communicate with a medical expert during the exam, then even an open-book exam not requiring memorization could be exploited that way.
- ghaff 5y agoMy understanding is that there is quite a bit of memorization associated with certain things in medical school such as anatomy.
- pessimizer 5y agoI think that cheating also causes a lot of programs to price cheating in, i.e. make the course harder because the cheating they don't detect gives them excessive expectations of students. I saw this in my CS program (and heard about it from other programs.) None of the classes taught people to program, they just expected people to know how already, and as a pretense assigned everyone a programming instruction book (in the program's official language) that was never covered through lecture. The non-programmers would immediately start falling behind and cheating together to tread water. I definitely saw people graduate who had no ability to program; they were busy enough figuring out how to cheat. an aside: CS programs are spoiled by hobbyist programmers like me who learned for fun when they were children, and they act as if everyone was a hobbyist. Plenty of people entering CS were just comfortable with math and liked playing video games. They foolishly expected to learn how to program at programming school.