We recently got an e-mail from a reader we'll call C.: > I'm a professor at an English-language liberal arts college in > Seoul, South Korea, where I teach Greco-Roman classic...
https://freakonomics.com/2014/04/black-market-study-notes-in-korea/
A new paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (abstract ; PDF ) explores "the cheater's high." The authors are NICOLE RUEDY , CELIA MOORE , FRANCESCA GINO , and MAURICE E. S...
A Freakonomics Radio listener named SANDRA ELSEN writes: > Today, I went to my son's kindergarten. He attends the local > International School (what the Realtor described as...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/should-we-stop-children-from-learning-to-cheat/
The Week (and, earlier, the N.Y. Post ) reports a new way for high-wage people to economize on time: when visiting Disney World, hire a “tour concierge” — a disabled person who uses his/he...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/06/black-market-tour-guides-at-disney-world/
For years, we've been giving away free autographed bookplates that readers can stick in their copies of our books. (We've taken a break from this practice recently but will resume when we publis...
A reader named ARI writes from Israel: > Recently the Israel Government voted to change the minimum age for > getting a driver's license. Here is a snippet from an article...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/05/would-you-help-your-kids-cheat-to-get-a-drivers-license/
This blog has clever readers. One of them, COREY FORBES, writes in to say: > We know that point shaving, game throwing, match fixing and referee > scandals have existed in profe...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/04/why-doesnt-the-government-fix-sporting-events/
A new survey of 500 financial service professionals in the U.S. and the U.K. finds that 26 percent of survey respondents "had observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the workplace...
An article in Chronicle of Higher Education explains how the increase in online courses has made cheating a lot easier. For example, BOB SMITH (not his real name) successfully arranged a test...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/06/how-to-cheat-in-online-courses/
Via the Globe & Mail : it used to be that when you wanted to cut class, you'd have to get a friend to sign you into class, or you'd have to beat your parents home to delete any incriminating mess...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/04/cutting-class-with-the-schools-help/
New research indicates that people may be more likely to lie when a charity benefits from their dishonesty. A group of researchers led by ALAN LEWIS at University of Bath investigated this in t...
I'm nearly certain that a pair of students cheated on my final exam—the probability they had so many identical answers on the multiple-choice exam is infinitesimal. If I pursue them, it takes m...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/what-to-do-with-cheating-students/
One of the few international topics covered in the original Freakonomics was the chapter describing how sumo wrestlers collude to throw matches. Over the years, the sport has provided plenty of ...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/more-odd-news-from-the-world-of-sumo-wrestling/
An investigation into Atlanta's public school system has uncovered evidence that teachers and principals have been secretly erasing and correcting answers on students' tests for as long as a deca...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/07/massive-teacher-cheating-scandal-uncovered-in-atlanta/
A handful of Washington D.C. schools are embroiled in a scandal over whether teachers corrected wrong answers to boost students' test scores, and thereby, increase their bonuses. The post Have ...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/03/have-d-c-s-best-schools-been-cheating-2/
Ordering your significant other to ignore the attractive person at the next table might backfire, according to a new study. The post Eyeballing the Forbidden Fruit appeared first on Freakonomi...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/02/eyeballing-the-forbidden-fruit/
In Wired, Jonah Lehrer profiles Mohan Srivastava, a Toronto statistician who seemingly cracked the scratch-lottery ticket code. "The tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed," writes Lehrer. "It ...
I can't say that I am surprised by the latest sumo headline from the Associated Press. The post Sumo: More of the Same appeared first on Freakonomics .
This year alone has seen teacher-cheating scandals in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta, and elsewhere; in this week's Times, SHARON OTTERMAN reports how New York State is trying to curtail...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/01/those-cheating-teachers-a-new-freakonomics-marketplace-podcast/
Have you ever wondered just who writes those papers handed in by cheating students? An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, written by a writer for a "custom-essay company," has some ans...