Which Grad Students Cheat the Most?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 21, 2006 @04:51AM from the means-to-an-end dept.

SpectralDesign.Net writes, "The results of a research paper released Wednesday reveal who is admitting to cheating (in North America). The study focused on 5,300 graduate students in Canada and the U.S. and concluded that the biggest cheaters were business students — 56% of them admitted to copying papers, plagiarizing, etc. The author of the study said, 'The typical comment is that what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important. You'll have business students saying all I'm doing is emulating the behavior I'll need when I get out in the real world.'" Other grad-student cheaters include: engineering students, 54%; physical sciences, 50%; medical and health-care, 49%; law, 45%; liberal arts, 43%; and social science and humanities students, 39%. These numbers are close to the guesstimate of the anonymous professor.

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Re:-1, Redundant by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-21 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dear Gothmolly,

You're not the first person named Molly nor the first Goth. Please cease to exist.

Sincerely,
Internet male
Re:-1, Redundant by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-21 05:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So wtf are you doing here posting in a thread about news you've already seen on the "Intarweb"? Just to make a lame-ass joke that this news has been reported elsewhere? You should go back to Fark. Your joke probably would go over better with the Farkers since it matches their level of humor--lame.