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by CobrastanJorji26 days ago |
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upvoteby traderj0e26 days ago|
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Could just be that about half of them never saw violations
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upvoteby CobrastanJorji26 days ago|
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It is true that more than half of respondees reported that they never saw a violation.

However, the 44.6% was the category of "respondents reported knowledge of Honor Code violations that they chose not to report," and the 0.4% was the category of "had reported a peer for an Honor Code violation."

Everybody who saw a violation was in one of those two categories (did report or didn't report), so we can compare them to see what percent of people who saw honor code violations did, and the answer is that >99% of them failed to uphold their pledge.

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upvoteby traderj0e26 days ago|
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Those two categories don't include everyone. 44.6% saw a violation and didn't report. 0.4% saw a violation and did report. That doesn't include people who didn't see a violation. Did I misread something?
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upvoteby nickff26 days ago|
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>” In The Daily Princetonian’s 2025 Senior Survey of over 500 seniors, 29.9 percent of respondents reported that they had cheated on an assignment or exam during their time at Princeton. 44.6 percent of senior respondents reported knowledge of Honor Code violations that they chose not to report. Only 0.4 percent of seniors responded saying that they had reported a peer for an Honor Code violation.”

The 44.6% appears to refer to the proportion of respondents who saw a violation and did not report it.

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upvoteby traderj0e26 days ago|
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Right, there's yet another group that didn't respond to the survey. But just among those who did, there are more than two groups.
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upvoteby nickff26 days ago|
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As far as I can tell there are three groups of respondents (in this respect):

- 0.4% saw and reported

- 44.6% saw and did not report

- 55% did not see (but may have erroneously reported, though that seems unlikely)

If this is correct, 44.6% of respondents are in breach of the honor code. If we assume that the non-witnesses behave similarly to the witnesses, 99.111% of the students do not ‘honor’ the code.

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