What happens when you apply eBay thinking to homework?

[sanantone]

Harvard's freshman survey was just posted on the other forum. 42% of students admitted to cheating on homework assignments, and 10% admitted to cheating on tests in high school. Of course, we don't know if they are going to continue this behavior in college, but Harvard did force dozens of students to withdraw last year due to a cheating scandal involving take home exams.

Survey: 42 percent of Harvard's incoming freshman class cheated on homework - U.S. News

Administrators said that on final-exam questions, some students supplied identical answers, down to, in some cases, typographical errors, indicating that they had written them together or plagiarized them. But some students claimed that the similarities in their answers were due to sharing notes or sitting in on sessions with the same teaching fellows. The instructions on the take-home exam explicitly prohibited collaboration, but many students said they did not think that included talking with teaching fellows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/educat....html?_r=0