Homework Copying

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/homework-copying-0318.html

Well I have to say a lot of people do these kinds of "this is obvious" research (like Kotaku reporting that games lowers people's academics records) but I'm pretty surprised MIT did something like that. Their study is pretty interesting though, like:

"It found that the copying of problems that require algebraic responses correlated with two letter grades’ worse performance on problems demanding similar responses on a final exam (but found that copying did not adversely affect grades on conceptual questions)."

SO IN OTHER WORDS, its okay to copy your homework if you're going to be BSing most of the time, it seems. :V

Some habit there. Well, everything else in the article seems pretty obvious. But MIT is a school too so I think it wants to know these kinds of things.