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The science of cheating
Unknown unknowns

t'snot silent in the lecture hall,
but it might as well be. More
than 200 students, sitting one
seat apart from each other, can-
not fail to generate noise in this
steeply sloped lecture hall. Papers
rustle, chairs squeak and shift.
Listen hard enough and you can
hear the scrape of your neighbor's
pencil on a Bluebook.
A muffled cough. And again.
Wherefore this rude interrupt?
She clears her throat, louder. A
pained expression, a display of
great discomfort. She makes eye
contact with the proctor and
points towards the door. He nods.
She scampers to the ladies' room,
where an organic chemistry text-
book is artfully stowed in the
wastebasket beneath a mound of
paper towels.
What better way for this col-
umn to kick off the academic year
than with a rousing revue of the
data on student misconduct? Stu-
dents have always come up with
ingenious methods to get optimal
grades with minimal effort, but
psychologists, sociologists, econ-

omists a
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been keeping up in the The experienced, suave cheat -
e. a psychology major, say - comes
out of the College- of up with various psychological
ring, Exploring Ethical techniques to justify his behav-
-Making in Engineer- ior.
p studies the motivations one, called "neutralizing" by
tudent cheating. Why the the cheating study group, is the
of Engineering? Accord- offloading of responsibility to
external factors. The exams are
too hard or the professor doesn't
f you don't care or the material is uninterest-
ing.
ort a cheater "Students believe it is the
inmstructors' responsibility to
1w long until limit cheating," wrote the group
in a 2006 paper.
W're a cheat? This belief is part of the shift in
the role of college education from a
once-distinct privilege to a mass-
produced commodity. These years
are just another stop in the assem-
the group, engineering bly line up to the real world. The
ads historically report cheaters are paying 30 grand a year
cheating of all students. to be entertained, not tobe stressed
inding has two possible out.
tations. Engineers cheat Innocuous, spur-of-the-
r engineers admit to it moment decisions can become
they are fundamentally habits and eventually swell to fill
eople. Either way, I don't See CHEATING, Page10B


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