I hope I've made you feel bad, Stephen.

Not very.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, is cheating purely a moral decision?

I'd be the guy who, when I was writing in the test.

You would put your elbow, you know that move?

Also, what's better to keep learning new skills or to go deep on what you're good at?

She's just been poaching one pair after the other.

Stephen, I was talking to my daughter Lucy the other day, and I'm very worried because she was telling me that cheating is epidemic right now.

Because of virtual education.

Yeah, students are at home taking their calculus exams.

So I'm wondering, is this something that you have any personal experience with?

Have you ever cheated, for example, on a calculus test or anything else you admit to on the air?

Well, back when I was young man, we couldn't cheat with the online education.

Those newfangled online. It is a topic of interest to me because I have two kids who are both

in college and they've also been talking to me about how everybody's cheating. That's kind of

the way they phrase it. They're like, oh, yeah, everybody's cheating.

Yeah, I guess I do have some thoughts.

I think it was WC. Fields who once said, a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

So we are talking about a primordial act here.

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