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University of Kansas, "Frequency and Cost of Copying Homework Revealed", Science Daily, March 21, 2010 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100318113750.htm>, Accessed March 18, 2010

notable findings ... (i) students who procrastinated copied more, (ii) those who started homework 3 days before due date copied less than 10% of problems, while those who drag their feet are repetitive copiers, (iii) students who copied had 3x the chance of failing course, (iv) students are twice as likely to copy written homework than online homework, (v) doing all the homework is better success predictor than pre-existing aptitude, (vi) people believe students copy because of poor academic skills, but repetitive copiers (30%+ of homework problems) generally have the knowledge (at least at beginning of semester) they just don't put in the effort, (vii) repetitive copiers don't learn copied topics leading to declined performance on analytical problems later in semester