What's interesting is those people are not necessarily maladapted to their future adult work lives.

In some lines of work finding the correct stuff to use for a task is way more important than ability to create it yourself from scratch.

Finding the plug that fits the given socket vs building the plug from scratch.

The original cheating, maybe. Cheating, doubling down by lying, and then cheating again on the get-out-of-cheating-free assignment seems like it’s only adapted to a future life of white-collar crime.