Comment Re:Headline misleading (Score 1) 437
[benefit of higher grade] - [cost of honestly achieving higher grade] > {[benefit of cheating] - [cost of cheating]} * [ risk of getting caught cheating] * [value of punishment for cheating].
Firstly, why are [benefit of higher grade] and [benefit of cheating] different variables? The benefit of cheating IS a higher grade. And isn't the [cost of cheating] not in fact the same thing as [value of punishment for cheating]!?
Secondly, your "more than" should be a "less than".
Thirdly, isn't the situation the simpler case of
"some students will cheat if: [benefit of cheating] > [cost of cheating]*[probability of getting caught]"
?