Why does it seem that everyone wants someone else to finnish there home work?

Answer 1

People seem to feel that homework is just busy work and is taking up their time. This is not true. the repetition leads gradually to an understanding of both the basics of Physics and the basics of problem solving.
Most unfortunately, the people who come here for answers are cheating themselves.
At this time of year a lot of the homework we help with is summer school students from North America. By the time they get to their exams they will not have the knowledge that they are supposed to have.Alas YA will not be able to bail them out.
Giving full answers so that you get the points is not doing these students a service, they have to learn to think for themselves.

Answer 2

Probably because it's easier than doing it themselves, and people like to do what's easy.

But that doesn't mean it's right. I can certainly understand asking for some help and clarification (after you've made a certain effort); but if all you do is simply post your homework problem on Yahoo!Answers, then take the answer that someone else provides and hand it in to your teacher as if you had done it yourself--I personally consider that not only immature but highly unethical. When I was a kid, we used to call that "cheating." It is really no different than copying someone else's answers during a test.

I do get concerned when I see that type of thing on Yahoo!Answers (and I seem to see it a lot). It's hard to say whether it's representative of all students; I like to think that 98% of students are doing their homework honestly, and what I see on Yahoo!Answers is just the 2% who are bad apples. But if that's not the case--if the average student feels that there's really nothing wrong with cheating and plagiarism--then that's pretty discouraging, and that type of attitude is bound to have bad consequences as such students become the people who run the world tomorrow.

Don't get me wrong--I really do enjoy helping people figure out something they're unclear about in their homework, and I'm the first to admit that many homework problems are written in terribly vague and confusing ways. When I provide an answer, I'll suggest a process or some steps that the student might follow, but I will not give them an exact answer that they can just copy.

Answer 3

Why does it seem that everyone wants someone else to Finnish their home work?

Some are pressed for time and are Russian, others are not Hungary for knowledge. Some have Norway of knowing where to begin. While some think that getting a second opinion will Sweden the experience.

Answer 4

i agree with answerer 3

I have to say I disagree with the answerer below me. I am a Physics student and I am very interested in the subject. I 'DO' get stuck even though I read the book from cover to cover. And yes, If you want to be a scientist you should be able to figure basic Q and A's out.

But there is something to be said for someone, actually helping you a little.

I am going to star this question. Students need to be motivated true, but lecturers and tutors need to be motivated about their students also. It's a two way street.

Answer 5

We are herd animals. We feel part of a collective. And when a burden seems heavy, I seek another's help to carry it.

In general, homework is to be engaged. The actual answer isn't as important as we make it out to be. What is sought is a change in the student by way of exposure to the material. No one really cares if the answer is 6. If it were important, they would pay you to tell them "6".

So, although it seems like cheating or laziness, perhaps it is all we can expect and require of students- that they take a certain interest, gain a small experience and get a minor push in the direction of knowing more than they started out knowing.

By the way, in the modern working world, it is rare to find a situation where one person, all alone, struggles to solve a profitable problem. We have set up our world so that help is available and the skill becomes finding useful help over reinventing the wheel.

Answer 6

Because most of the time, homework is just busy work. You're just doing the same problems over and over for repetition and a lot of people find it boring and tedious. If you know that F=ma, should you still have to do 15 questions to prove that you know how to apply a formula? That's why I hated homework during high school.
In college, most classes don't require homework or homework is a very small portion of your grade. They don't care if you've done a lot of questions, they only care if you know enough information to get the grade.
Or maybe they're too lazy or they can't do it. There's many reasons why somebody won't want to do something.

Answer 7

You mean here in this forum? They're not interested in learning the material and just want to pass. If they were interested in learning, they'd ask questions to clarify the concepts needed. Too often, though, they just want to know if it's a,b,c, or d.

Answer 8

that may be a sweeping generalization.. although a lot of people really do need help in their homeworks...

Answer 9

because it sucks.