‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating ^48.3%

Fortune - By Catherina Gioino - 6/29/2026, 10:02 PM

Appeal to Emotion 26.6% - Negativity Bias 25.8% - Hasty Generalization 18%

When Brown University Professor Roberto Serrano changed the format of his midterm exam last spring, he was thinking about his students’ mental health, not academic fraud. Two of them had been shot, including Ella Cook, a young woman who had sat in his office just days before the December 13 massacre at Brown University and asked him to... more