Those DDiv students are ruthless bastards.
Posted on 09/22/2006 3:51:59 AM PDT by voletti
BOSTON: Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday.
The study of 5,300 graduate students in the United States and Canada found that 56 per cent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the past year, with many saying they cheated because they believed it was an accepted practice in business.
Following business students, 54 per cent of graduate engineering students admitted to cheating, as did 50 per cent of physical science students, 49 per cent of medical and health-care students, 45 per cent of law students, 43 per cent of liberal arts students and 39 percent of social science and humanities students.
"Students have reached the point where they're making their own rules," said lead author Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at New Jersey's Rutgers University. "They'll challenge rules that professors have made, because they think they're stupid, basically, or inappropriate."
McCabe said it's likely that more students cheat than admit to it.
Who's most likely to commit treason, Liberal Arts majors?
Those DDiv students are ruthless bastards.
LOL!
Good one.
The libs are spinning here too. they wanna make it out that business is inerently corrupt and prone to cheating. THAT is the underlying motif behind this 'research', IMO.
You readers know what Bush majored in!
Of course, it didn't help things that a lot of business majors were kind of shallow.
But of course! Everyone knows that we MBAs are nothing but a bunch of lying, thieving, backstabbing, ruthless cosmopolitans! Just ask Rosie O'Donut and the rest of the Democrat brain trust!
While the lawyers who represent the other 99% of the House and Senate are straight shooters.
I've seen a lot of kids fresh out of school the past two years. Most of them S/W engineering types.
Many of them have ignored and/or tested the rules at first, but then seem to be so in awe that rules are actually enforced that they become eager to show that they are following them.
Well the writers and researchers here did a bit of cheating at statistics in this article.
Lets look at the cheating in table form
56 per cent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the past year, with many saying they cheated because they believed it was an accepted practice in business.
business students 56
engineering students 54
physical science 50
medical and health-care students 49
law students 45
liberal arts students 43
social science and humanities 39
If the 56% of business students who chose to cheat at some point were unduly influenced by belief that "it was an accepted practice in business," how does this explain that students in a number of other field cheated at relatively the same rate.
Is cheating an accepted practice in engineering and medicine too?
Anyone who has taken a basic statistics class can read right through the motivations of the alledged journalist here.
A few years back I worked with a guy who was a member of the Ohio bar, but had to take the MA bar exam to practice here. Separate from the bar exam (but also required) was an "ethics exam." It amused me no end that for the fee for the ethics exam, they stipulated: "NO PERSONAL CHECKS." I commented to my friend that they should take personal checks -- and make the check 60% of the score: if it bounced you don't make it. He didn't think it was as funny as I did.
It could also mean that the MBA students are more prone to answer the question honestly, and the law students are more likely to lie....
The 53% of business majors who cheat don't worry me nearly as much as the 49% of health-care majors who cheat.
LOL!
Many of them have ignored and/or tested the rules at first, but then seem to be so in awe that rules are actually enforced that they become eager to show that they are following them.
Probably because if you try to BS Code with buzzwords like "RONA", it just crashes!
A few years ago, someone plagiarized a web page of a friend of mine..Text, pictures, background, layout..Everything.
In the subsequent email exchanges, the plagiarist signed his messages "John Doe, MBA".
A new graduate.
We did some digging, identified his school, and the hot button that made him come unhinged was, "We visited your typing school"...
My experience in Fortune 500's left me with a bad impression of SOME of them.
"Anything to make the current Quarter look good, and to Hell with the future of the company"...An analogy to "Anything to get the degree and Get That Porsche".
So the story does not surprise me.
Understand though that I am in an area infested with Business Schools so probably see more of the bad ones than most. Maybe the good ones move away to Big Business and the ones picked over and left behind stick around.
Unfortunately, the epidemic of cheating is symptomatic of a larger moral rot that pervades our society today.
No, its not.
Disclaimer, University of Connecticut MBA, 1982
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