>>Academic cheating:
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>>Roughly 10% of CS students:
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>>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/3/cs50-cheating-cases-2017/
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>>Roughly 50% of the Gov1310 course:
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>>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/8/30/academic-dishonesty-ad-board/
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>>This is Harvard, FCOL. In a few short years we'll be expecting these people to work their way into senior positions in tech and government.
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>Where their ability to lie and cheat will be a major asset.

That's pretty much the same with the benchmarks in hardware or major apps. Some of them score better than expected, and then in the analysis of the results the testers explain why. They usually consider these results as some kind of cheat - as in "it's using this trick to achieve that". As an user, I don't care. If that trick works when I use it, well, the better.

But that's about those that do the cheats themselves. Those who pay to get things done in their name, aahhh. Our lame duck president, the gravedigger Nikolić, has bought a college grade during his term. The current minister of interior, nicknamed Snot, has a plagiarized PhD paper, from a private university whose owner has a bogus PhD from an institution in London which has a name similar to that of LSoE, where he did stay for a while on some courses but surely wasn't even enrolled in doctoral.

There are websites in the .rs domain where there are all kinds of papers on offer, for money. All those unemployed graduates have to eat, too. And there's a market for it. On the flip side, some professors don't even know how to do a proper search, so they are prone to accuse a student of plagiarizing for using so many words that others have used. Academia, cacademia...