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This looks systemic. Cheating like this is probably rampant by now. Fresh students watched carefully as others in the department did it, and got promoted, fini
by rdtsc 3y ago
This looks systemic. Cheating like this is probably rampant by now. Fresh students watched carefully as others in the department did it, and got promoted, finished faster, got funding and good positions. This on top of minimal repercussions if anyone got caught. These students become department heads and then everyone under them start tolerating it.
It spreads like a cancer. Apologies for the pun but it fits aptly here.
- 2cynykyl 3y agoThink about it the other way...what would happen if they didn't cheat? Imagine spending 6 of your prime years in a lab doing experiments that refused to work...your hypothesis is totally wrong, etc. It is not hard to imagine a student in this situation resorting to this option, because it is barely an exaggeration to say their life depends on it.
- rdtsc 3y ago> Imagine spending 6 of your prime years in a lab doing experiments that refused to work...your hypothesis is totally wrong, etc. It is not hard to imagine a student in this situation resorting to this option, because it is barely an exaggeration to say their life depends on it. Actually that might be ok if the system allowed just publishing the results and saying "I had this hypothesis and it didn't work, here are the experimental results". However, the main problem is they watch others around them who bend the rules and get away with it and succeed. The system overall seems to reward cheating, so they get "on board" with it, thus perpetuation the system. Even more, once it becomes pervasive, the standards are raised for everyone. Now those who don't cut corners, to put it very mildly, are not even able to compete. Honest works becomes impossible. The choice is either leave or start cheating.