Yeah, but you were already scared of contravening the rules and wouldn’t have cheated anyway.
It’s a false equivalency.
It’s a false equivalency.
If anything, I suspect that on net a noisily invasive anti-cheating system would actually increase cheating, as more students would be tempted to see if they could game the cheating system than would be dissuaded from cheating from hearing about a cheat-proof system.
I can tell you with certainty that some cheaters are skittish. I am certain of that because I once wrote a bunch of trig identities on the side of my leg. I was very nervous about it, and only did it because I knew from previous tests in that course that I could get away with it. If the teacher had been walking around during that test, my pant leg would have stayed down.