[alexandercrohde]

That's all totally reasonable. However independent of that-

One thing he said that sounded completely outrageous though was that the inclusivity committee asked "A reduction in the amount of effort expended pursuing cheating cases by 50 percent even though there has been no reduction in cheating cases."

That's crossing a huge line in my opinion.

[josteink]

It's about demographics. Whatever demographic is being caught cheating is probably also a "minority" demographic not exceeding in academia, making the school "look bad" for "not being inclusive enough".

So for the school to be "more inclusive", more of that demographic needs to pass. And then we just have to stop catching them while cheating.

This is typically the error where people force-optimize for the numbers asked alone, instead of thinking about what they can do to make those metrics appear naturally.

And as usual the results are just bonkers.