Okay I need help,
I was doing an online assignment for my stats class, where I had to analyze data and then answer a few questions about the data. I knew a formula for excel that would help solve 2 of the questions for me, but the other 2 questions I could not have solved with the formula and when I went to turn in my assignment it showed that I haved used that formula. Is this considered cheating? Our professor never said not to use it so I’m not sure whether or not it is a big deal. It was for 1 assignment (we have 38 assignment a semester).
What do you mean?
Did they say anything similar?
If I’m reading this correctly, it’s an issue of “not showing your work” rather than cheating.
Unless the professor required you do the statistics by hand, I would not consider it cheating to have used an excel function instead of manually doing the calculations.
I think the real thing is “Do you understand the material? If you had to do this on a test, could you?”
That is not cheating. If you were not explicitly told to do the calculations by hand, you can use whatever.