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turkishmonky | 2 years ago

I read it that smart people are more likely to try and figure out to outsmart a security system not to cheat but just to see if they can.

In my experience at libraries and on college networks, that tracks.

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MengerSponge|2 years ago

Reading comprehension is still undefeated.

A student who has excess bandwidth after acing a test is more likely to want to poke and explore the limitations of that system than a student who, at capacity, is almost perfect.

Unscientific, but I'd bet there are two major cheating populations: 95%+, and something like 50-75%. By definition there are a lot more of the mid-tier-barely-getting-by cheaters, but they also aren't as smart and are only dangerous to societal trust in aggregate.

Come to think of it, I missed the third major population: pre-meds