When that single cheat might have resulted in expulsion if it were caught, it implies a pretty significant effect on the grade.
It wouldn’t actually change the result of the metric (because survivorship bias: you don’t count students who never graduated in the graduated student population), but it changes the believability of and the ethic behind the metric. Now we can say that at least 10% of the folks who graduated didn’t earn their grades, and the school’s reputation is less for it.
It wouldn’t actually change the result of the metric (because survivorship bias: you don’t count students who never graduated in the graduated student population), but it changes the believability of and the ethic behind the metric. Now we can say that at least 10% of the folks who graduated didn’t earn their grades, and the school’s reputation is less for it.