Comment by scotty79
13 hours ago
> The people who get caught red handed like this are lazy, incompetent and stupid.
Being a cheat significantly correlates with laziness, incompetence and stupidity so there are probably very few cheats smart and diligent enough to not get caught.
The sample of cheaters that we know about is biased towards cheaters who get caught.
Based on my experience of the field, I very much challenge that assumption.
Indeed, the niches of smart cheats or smart criminals have a lot of room. Because the trajectories to reach that stage without being caught by a legal (good legal work) or moral (good person) attractor are sparse and that makes them somewhat rare.
Handwaving correlations between cheating/criminality and most personality/intelligence aspects is an error, not least because there is a selection bias problem (eg. who gets caught).
> Being a cheat significantly correlates with laziness, incompetence and stupidity
There is no evidence for this.