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My alleged memory may be inventing this, but it seems to me that back in the day, if you heard anything about cheating it was in premed classes, where I presume the competition would have been most brutal. (Especially since in those days, med school was a ticket out of the draft pool...) So there may very well be something about the competition angle.

It seems to me that back in a somewhat different day, there was plenty of cheating but Stanford students diligently tried not to see it as they would then have to decide if they would comply with the part of the honor code that says you have to turn in anybody you know of who cheated.

I still believe that having the honor code led to considerably less cheating than not having it - but cheating wasn't in short supply in the mid to late 80s.

[CTcard]

My alleged memory may be inventing this, but it seems to me that back in the day, if you heard anything about cheating it was in premed classes, where I presume the competition would have been most brutal. (Especially since in those days, med school was a ticket out of the draft pool...) So there may very well be something about the competition angle.

It seems to me that back in a somewhat different day, there was plenty of cheating but Stanford students diligently tried not to see it as they would then have to decide if they would comply with the part of the honor code that says you have to turn in anybody you know of who cheated.

I still believe that having the honor code led to considerably less cheating than not having it - but cheating wasn't in short supply in the mid to late 80s.