<p>Err, on schoolwork, that is. Not in relationships.</p>
<p>Post your stance, choosing from one of the following:</p>
<p>I never cheat and I actively prevent others from doing so.
I never cheat but I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.
I sometimes cheat and I actively prevent others from doing so.
I sometimes cheat and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.
I cheat often but I actively prevent others from doing so.
I cheat often and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.</p>
<p>Qualify it if necessary.</p>
<p>Present an argument if you would like.</p>
<hr>
<p>I'll start: I never cheat but I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.</p>
<p>Qualification: I have copied people's homework a handful of times (always homework that is graded for completion) when I've forgotten to do it.</p>
<p>Argument: I think that those who cheat are only cheating themselves; therefore, I do not take an active role in preventing their stupid, misguided decisions.</p>
<p>I never cheat and I don't ever have a chance to prevent anyone from doing so because our class sizes are far too small for cheating to be an option.</p>
<p>Cheating being defined as... what exactly? A purposeful act of deception? Subverting a teacher's explicitly established rules? Seems a tad vague to me...</p>
<p>I guess I'll just say that "I never cheat but I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so," or maybe "I sometimes cheat and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so."</p>
<p>I occasionally ask people for help on my HW if I don't understand something or if that HW was meant solely for my personal benefit and nothing else, and I don't care to do it as such (like, say, busy work in history class. I'll divvy up the work with a few of my peers and we'll all share answers at the end -- usually done with the consent of the teacher and never done when the teacher explicitly prohibits it, sometimes when there aren't any clearly established rules though). Does this count as cheating?</p>
<p>Never on a test either, although I've consulted my calc a time or two over the years in math class for some obscure equation or another, but it's when calculators are allowed and there are no rules prohibiting the storage of programs in there. Some teachers have encouraged it too (my calc ab mini-teacher even gave us an auto-integral program and a few other nifty tools, lol, and I sometimes check my answers using them if I'm not entirely sure). This might count as cheating, I dunno. [as a side note, would the people using TI-89s be cheating because of the additional functionality their calcs provide?]</p>
<p>I don't really care when others cheat, if they want to pointlessly inflate their grades then so be it. The only ones really capable of posing any threat on curves and the like are those who don't need to cheat, lol, so it doesn't really matter much to me if the otherwise incompetent do it every once in a while.</p>
<p>I sometimes cheat and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.</p>
<p>Yeah I admit it, not something I would really tell anyone, I def do not do it often. My classes are really small so its hard. But then again I rarely feel the need to do it!</p>
<p>This is very sketchy, especially since everyone disagrees on what cheating is, how much to a degree, in specific situations, etc...</p>
<p>But I guess I sometimes cheat and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.</p>
<p>I don't really cheat anymore, I used to in middle school. I don't cheat not only because of something moral and etc, but because I'm lazy and cheating takes more effort than filling in a couple bubbles and I'm not so much concerned with my grade as that wasting of my time to take the effort to cheat, when I could be using that for something like games or exercising.</p>
<p>I cheat often but I actively prevent others from doing so: Sure, it may be hypocrisy, but I think you should do anything to secure an advantage over your classmates.</p>
<p>Really, its a mix between one and two. In APUSH, it was pretty obvious some people were trying to glance at my paper, so I covered up all my answers and stopped taking the test until they looked elsewhere. And if people ask me a question in the middle of a test, I'll just tell them "I can't tell you that," and be done. But if I hear other people talk about cheating, which is very rare, I won't do anything about it because I don't think any case against them would be strong enough (and I know they still won't get past me on the tests).</p>
<p>Homework copying isn't cheating, especially if its just graded for completion, because it either busywork and thus stupid, or something that was intended to teach you something or give you practice on concepts, and thus hurts your knowledge if you don't do it yourself.</p>
<p>I sometimes cheat and I allow others to / do not actively prevent others from doing so.</p>
<p>Qualification: I copy homework, ask for answers on tests that people have taken before me, and even once or twice obtained a copy of the test itself (from someone else) before I took it. Never anything actually during the test, though. I also don't really care if other people cheat. Doesn't hurt me, there's no curving at my school.</p>
<p>Argument: I'll always learn the material eventually, just sometimes not on time for the test. Given that I'll spend time later trying to review it all, I don't see it as just to give myself a low grade over it. And like I said, no curving at my school, so it hurts no one if I cheat, and I'm not hurt if they cheat.</p>
<p>Lul amciw, I almost fainted when I read the first line. I was like, "YOU?!?" </p>
<p>Mmhmm, I've tried to err more on the "one" side lately, in that sometimes I'll refuse to help people out during tests or let them see/copy my work. However, I don't make an effort to cover up my answers during tests... and depending on my mood, I do sometimes let people look at my work (long-term things like Bio labs. :/)</p>
<p>It was too easy make that statement, and, I'm sure, there are actually people like that. I don't know anyone at my school, but you may have more experience.</p>
<p>I only covered my answers because it was blatantly obvious they were trying to get them, and these were kids who I knew had not done anything to deserve a decent test grade (no reading, in APUSH). I thought about it later and realized I should have just been completely fine with them stealing my answers - but, stealing the wrong answers. Since I got so many right, they would have 10 out of 60 at best, and have gotten a nice lesson about cheating. At least, they wouldn't have gone to me for answers. And Bio labs, aren't they supposed to be collaborative, anyways? I wouldn't consider assisting each other on them cheating.</p>
<p>Since the OP claimed "I never cheat" and then qualified it by describing an act of cheating (allowing him/herself to receive credit for work he/she did not complete), I can infer that this poll is valueless.</p>
Mm, okay, be a little more strict about semantics! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>You're correct that I used the word "never" improperly; however, my qualifying of my statement was just that. If you were really such a stickler for proper usage of words, you would acknowledge that. </p>
<p>Also, your logic is faulty. How would my loose categorization render the poll -- which is really more of a discussion; I didn't post it for statistical purposes -- valueless?</p>