Your comment comes off as "people who score well on tests are more often cheaters", supported by anecdotal evidence. Above all, it's hardly relevant to the overall discussion and feels more like a grievance.

I read it that smart people are more likely to try and figure out to outsmart a security system not to cheat but just to see if they can.

In my experience at libraries and on college networks, that tracks.

Reading comprehension is still undefeated.

A student who has excess bandwidth after acing a test is more likely to want to poke and explore the limitations of that system than a student who, at capacity, is almost perfect.

Unscientific, but I'd bet there are two major cheating populations: 95%+, and something like 50-75%. By definition there are a lot more of the mid-tier-barely-getting-by cheaters, but they also aren't as smart and are only dangerous to societal trust in aggregate.

Come to think of it, I missed the third major population: pre-meds

A score of 14/100 on a test is unlikely to have cheated.

A score of 14/100 on a test is likely to have cheated incompetently, e.g. by using the answer key from some other test.