Over at Gangwon notes, there’s an interesting post about the economics of caring about cheating.. I should note that this is specific to cheating on tests. I gotta say, I kind of agree. Most cheaters: Are inept students to begin with, and are likely to hang themselves with any rope you actually give them. Are highly susceptible to well-designed tests. The cheaters among Korean students benefit very much from the multiple-choice, regurgitate-but-don’t-demonstrate-deep-understanding forms that testing often takes here. A test that’s designed simply to force a student to demonstrate understanding and enough intelligence to performing a little synthesis of the …