Study: Cheating students more likely to want government jobs
Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2013
Students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania study finds. / image via Wikimedia Commons
College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India.
Their results, recently released as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggest that one of the contributing forces behind government corruption could be who gets into government work in the first place.
For instance, “if people have the view that jobs in government are corrupt, people who are honest might not want to get into that system,” said Rema Hanna, an associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. To combat that problem, governments may need to find new ways to screen people seeking jobs, she said.
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This is in no way meant to offend anyone who works for the government who is on this site, but I know three people who work/worked for the government, and they're all DECEPTIVE!
Is this tantamount to saying that a majority of elected officials in government (and the people who work for them) are somewhat to totally dishonest?
Malcolm: That appears to be the case.