>> 1. Significant amounts of people cheated during college, and if asked probably wouldn't even identify their behavior as cheating.
>Unless you have some real data backing this up, you can't claim this is true.
As a nitpick, you should be able to claim whatever you want. But besides that... from my experience in college (and as a TA for an intro class) I tend to agree with the sentiment that a significant amount of people cheat. It doesn't mean MOST people cheat, it's just "significant". I remember one week where 30 of our students (10-20% of the class) pasted an answer from Stack Overflow word-for-word. One student went so far as to put a sheet of looseleaf over their friend's paper, and trace every symbol by hand.
>Unless you have some real data backing this up, you can't claim this is true.
As a nitpick, you should be able to claim whatever you want. But besides that... from my experience in college (and as a TA for an intro class) I tend to agree with the sentiment that a significant amount of people cheat. It doesn't mean MOST people cheat, it's just "significant". I remember one week where 30 of our students (10-20% of the class) pasted an answer from Stack Overflow word-for-word. One student went so far as to put a sheet of looseleaf over their friend's paper, and trace every symbol by hand.