Cheaters!

What do you think about this Slashdot article referencing SpectralDesign.Net:

"The results of a research paper released Wednesday reveal who is admitting to cheating (in North America). The study focused on 5,300 graduate students in Canada and the U.S. and concluded that the biggest cheaters were business students — 56% of them admitted to copying papers, plagiarizing, etc. The author of the study said, 'The typical comment is that what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important. You'll have business students saying all I'm doing is emulating the behavior I'll need when I get out in the real world.'" Other grad-student cheaters include: engineering students, 54%; physical sciences, 50%; medical and health-care, 49%; law, 45%; liberal arts, 43%; and social science and humanities students, 39%. These numbers are close to the guesstimate of the anonymous professor.

I don't know if the data is accurate, or even if it clearly represents us, but I wonder about how valid some of the student comments are? I also wonder if this should put pressure on us to become better teachers further integrating moral dimensions into our teaching philosophy and pedagogy?!