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Half of surveyed CS majors say they would rather cheat than fail

development2026-05-18

Claim

Stanford seniors report cheating is omnipresent, with 49% of surveyed computer science majors saying they would rather cheat than fail, as a campus that banned proctored exams for a century rebuilds assessment around what AI cannot fake.

Reported metric: 49%

Reporting date: 2026-05-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 18, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Stanford University

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Supersedes

Princeton ends its 1893 honor code and restores proctoring

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Half of surveyed CS majors say they would rather cheat than fail
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-18-half-of-cs-majors-would-rather-cheat
Claim: Stanford seniors report cheating is omnipresent, with 49% of surveyed computer science majors saying they would rather cheat than fail, as a campus that banned proctored exams for a century rebuilds assessment around what AI cannot fake.
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- Welcome to May 18, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-18-2026
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