Academic Cheating Control and Identification
In elementary, mid school, and highschool, university, cheating may happen in a more controlled environment, like classroom. A common practice that I have seen is that they may use proctor to oversee student during an exam. But In research paper assignment, cheating happens in environment beyond their control. Although they may be well informed of statistician practices who offers service to student researcher, A University can’t just order to close their business.
Identification also becomes harder. In school, as far as I remember, formula cheat sheet, text book hidden in a drawer desk are traditionally used as tool for cheating student. Students who use those during an exam can be identified as cheater if caught in the act along with those tools as concrete evidence. But how to identify a student researcher who pays statistician, claimed it as their own work and reported it to their supervisor who then assess them based on it is probably a problem not yet solved.
False Input for academic assessment
By submitting others work but claiming as if their own, Cheater Student provides their assessor with a false input for academic assessment. When it is actually others work, unaware assessor may assume it is the work of student whose name written on their exam paper, homework, assignment, or any other form of assessment basis.
Students that don't want to study
Students themselves won’t undergo the learning process as what they are supposed to as student, when in fact they ask someone else either voluntarily or professionally to do some or all their academic work (e.g statistical analysis to statistician). Showing this behavior may signify they actually don’t want to be a student.
Because of the practice, it is plausible when people are suspicious of Indonesian social science graduates that their research paper may be partly assisted by paid statisticians. Because of this also, I myself have lost confidence to any social science major graduate from Indonesia in any level of education. This also makes me somewhat reluctant to continue my study in Indonesia worrying that they might be stereo-typically suspicious on me as cheater student also if I did. I am looking for better study environment.
Does this happen also in Other countries?
I am curious in other countries, whether statistician who offers professional help for social science student researcher is also available, hence opens the opportunity for them to cheat like in Indonesia