Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds

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<p>“College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India.” …</p>

<p>Does this imply that American college students do, too?</p>

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<p>who cares about whether cheaters in India plan to look for gov’t jobs in their country?</p>

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This might be tied to other studies that the Indian government is viewed as very corrupt. Despite all the shortfalls and misdealings of the US Gov’t, polls and studies still show them to be less corrupt than the Indian Gov’t.</p>

<p>So no, I highly doubt there is a correlation to cheaters in India and cheaters in the US both endeavouring to get into gov’t work. Heck, the smart cheaters should know that there’s a lot more money to be made in the private sector, then again their cheating shows their laziness too. . .</p>

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<p>No, it doesn’t imply anything other than what Indian students want. It would be incredibly stupid to generalize from one culture to another.</p>

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<p>It would be stupid to assume that because this is the case in india it is definitely the case in the US, but it is perfectly reasonable to see this result in india and then wonder/investigate if the same could be true in the US.</p>

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<p>My question is, does it even matter if they want to work for their government? How many of these dishonest students actually get there? And if they don’t make it into government, what fields do these students gravitate toward, if there is any significant correlation at all? </p>

<p>Of course it cannot be generalized across cultures, or even age groups (would the result be the same of younger or older participants? How does age and life experience shape perception?) until similar results are found with American participants. But the desire alone isn’t enough to interest me; I’d want to know the long term implications of dishonest behavior on career preference.</p>

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<p>True, Brown, in which case the question would be “Could the same be true in the U.S.?” not " Does this imply that American college students do, too?"</p>

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<p>Personally I think you’re splitting hairs. I took Dave’s response to be a start for discussion about the possibility, not a statement about whether the study was or wasn’t applicable to the US.</p>

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<p>Don’t cheating students in America want to continue their sleazy habits as hedge fund managers on Wall Street?</p>

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<p>I don’t think I’m splitting hairs at all. They’re two fundamentally different questions.</p>

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<p>Interesting read.</p>