Charles Wheelan in Chapter two was arguing how important are
incentives. I want to write about, how wrong incentives of other people impose
bad incentives on myself.
Charles
mentions cheating with taxes. The bad incentive can be assumed to work also in
cheating on exams. In Central European culture, cheating isn’t perceived as in
the US. We are much more benevolent to cheating and getting credit for someone’s
work. The problem in schools is simple to understand, but hard to solve. Kids
are cheating to get better grades, so they can get to better universities.
Teachers don’t have the capacities to control and catch every cheater. Furthermore
Teachers cheat the state in bureaucracy because the paperwork is tremendous. So
everyone is trying to bypass the system. Now if someone is trying to be honest
and study for the test, he knows that he will not get as good grade as the cheater.
So if some ambitious and honest student wants to get to a good university, he
needs to decide whether he will cheat and get to it, or face the big
probability of not getting into it. So bad incentives of Students to cheat,
with the lack of control results in a bad incentive for honest students.
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