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If you see someone cheating on a test, do you tell?

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would I tell? probably not. just say something to the other student after class.

however the code of ethics at our school requires us to inform the faculty/administration of any cheating or we can also be disiplined
 
no
a) none of my business
b) ethics...what kind of lame friendless asshole does that?
c) individuals have insgnificant effect on the resulting curve from statistical point of view


however,
if someone is cheating off me, i will let the person know im not cool with that. If they dont get the clue, then i'd consider more appropriate action
 
Depends. I never have in college, because most of my classes are huge lectures and a few people can't affect it.

But if I think that your cheating is going to affect the curve, I have and will destroy you with a terrible vengence.

I see cheating as a war. You know you are taking a risk, and you know you might be affecting the curve. If you fvck up, you die.
 
as someone who just graduated from college i can tell you that 80% of the people there cheat, and I went to a school ranked in the top 40 of the stupid US news thing, people that dont need to cheat doing it anyway, people would use cheat sheets, download answers from the net, work with others...
On take home tests they were basically group tests even tho they wernt supposed to be, limit yourself to 3 hours= work for 2 days on it, people cheated on everything, yes i broke the rules on a few things, took longer then i was supposed to, used google,

nothing to the extent of letting someone else copy my take home test, which happened more then it should have, thoes people usially got busted tho and then booted from school

my sister just got out of Law School and she said people cheat there like mad as well

anything that gives you teh edge over someone else is all they care about, cheating or not
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: edro13
WTF. What kind of asshole would "tell the teacher" that someone is cheating? That is the most ignorant thing I have ever heard. If it doesn't harm you, leave it alone. Hell, if I was a professor and someone came up and told me that someone else was cheating, I would remember his name and grade the hell out of his paper... marking off for any tiny thing.
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That's why morons like you don't become professors 🙂
You definitely don't want an idiot who has to cheat on tests designing bridges or buildings.
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Agreed.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
as someone who just graduated from college i can tell you that 80% of the people there cheat, and I went to a school ranken in the top 40 of the stupid US news thing, people that dont need to cheat doing it anyway, people woudl use cheat sheets, download answers from the net, work with others...
On take home tests they were basically group tests even tho they wernt supposed to be, limit yourself to 3 hours= work for 2 days on it, people cheated on everything, yes i broke the rules on a few things, took longer then i was supposed to, used google,

nothing to the extent of letting someone else copy my take home test, which happene every now and then, thoes peopel usially got busted tho and then booted from school

my sister just got out of Law School and she said people cheat there like mad as well

anything that gives you teh edge over someone else is all they care about, cheating or not
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take home tests & top 40 school.... thats BS
where exactly do you go?
 
Both Stanford and UCLA have various types of take home mid terms and finals.
 
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Anubis
as someone who just graduated from college i can tell you that 80% of the people there cheat, and I went to a school ranken in the top 40 of the stupid US news thing, people that dont need to cheat doing it anyway, people woudl use cheat sheets, download answers from the net, work with others...
On take home tests they were basically group tests even tho they wernt supposed to be, limit yourself to 3 hours= work for 2 days on it, people cheated on everything, yes i broke the rules on a few things, took longer then i was supposed to, used google,

nothing to the extent of letting someone else copy my take home test, which happene every now and then, thoes peopel usially got busted tho and then booted from school

my sister just got out of Law School and she said people cheat there like mad as well

anything that gives you teh edge over someone else is all they care about, cheating or not
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take home tests & top 40 school.... thats BS
where exactly do you go?
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Dickinson College, i beleive it was 39 this year

we had take homes for Math and Physics because they usially took too damn long to do it during class time, my analysis final took me like 13 hours to do, the E&M final took even longer
 
Originally posted by: bluehorizon
Originally posted by: Anubis


anything that gives you teh edge over someone else is all they care about, cheating or not
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That my friend, is the american way 🙂
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Exactly, but thats also why I will put a red hot iron up your ass if I deem it necessary.
 
Originally posted by: LordSegan
Both Stanford and UCLA have various types of take home mid terms and finals.
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Ivy leagues are known to inflate grades anyway. I don't trust anyone coming out of there with a 4.0.
 
Originally posted by: gflores
Just wondering, because I saw a bunch of people's eyes wandering in my midterm just about an hour ago.
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Those people that cheat will also have trouble finding a job. Don't you worry. But I would tell.
 
tattle tails! of course i would not tell. at UMD however they usually did stuff to make it harder to cheat. like have you sit every other seat from someone, and directly infront/behind of the others so that you don't have an angle on anyone.
 
i dont know. One time i saw a girl lean over and open her text book for a few minutes. Then she did it a second time. I was so pissed I wanted to rat on her, but I didn't since we're talking about her college career and such. I didn't want to be the one that pulls the trigger on her future. I just hope she gets what she deserves one day.
 
Any good professor that knows who gets which version of the test and where people are sitting will have no problem figuring it out.
 
Originally posted by: JeffCos
Any good professor that knows who gets which version of the test and where people are sitting will have no problem figuring it out.
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thats only if the prof uses different test versions

in my 4 years at college i only had this happen on 1 test
 
Originally posted by: Corsairpro
yes, people of lesser intelligence should be out in the coal mines or flipping burgers, not getting by because of someone else's intellectual efforts
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Tell that to our president or any of the many very successful people who get by on cheating... A lot of the time a cheater is MUCH smarter than the cheated so they end up getting what they deserve in the end any way. No need for me to step in and step down to their level.
 
I'd love to 'tell' because I've seen far too many people graduate from my program who are morons only good at cheating, and thus give the rest of us a bad name with whatever employer encounters them. However the reality is that even if you report someone totally anonymously, they probably won't get disciplined in any meaningful way and it'll likely reverberate back onto you somehow.

I will help even a moron right up until the test/exam begins, but I will not cheat during a test - especially to help someone else. As if saving your ass is worth risking mine.
 
I guess the better question would be, if you caught someone cheating on your test, would you tell? I think we'd see the poll around 60/40?
 
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