In this article, the perception of drug
enhanced academics is discussed. A
recent survey of freshmen at Penn State University found that, while most
freshmen believe that it is wrong to take drugs to increase abilities to
perform for athletic events, they did not believe it was wrong to take drugs to
increase abilities for academic events.
It was interesting to see the reasoning behind such an idea. It is believed that most of the freshmen saw
using drugs such as steroids in an athletic event was cheating because by one
athlete using the drugs to outperform all the other athletes he is giving
himself an unfair advantage. However, when
the freshman saw that the drug use was to better perform on a test, they did
not see it as cheating because the person using the drugs was not directly
giving themselves and advantage over the other students. This is somewhat wrong though. In classes where it is graded on a bell
curve, he students are in competition with each other. This means that a student using drugs to
study for an exam is giving themselves a direct advantage over a student who does
not use drugs to study for an exam. Therefore, perception of what is cheating
can be different from what was originally thought.
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