Only 55% of concerned respondents who had applied to a company engaged in concerning activities said the knowledge made them less likely to apply¶
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q2 i? Among respondents with concerns who applied to related companies, only 55% explicitly indicated they were less likely to apply after learning of the activities. → Mohamed Abdalla 2026
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Mohamed Abdalla 2026¶
Mohamed Abdalla, Sahar Abdalla, Alicia Cappello, Kyrie Dowling, Danaé Metaxa, David G. Widder, Catherine Stinson. (2026). Cost-of-Ethics Crisis: Beliefs, Decisions, and Justifications in the Job Searches of Computer Science Students in Canada and the United States. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09680 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.09680
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Dynamic survey section presenting respondents with conflicts between stated concerns and companies they applied to; the article reports "Only 55% of respondents who indicated some level of concern and had applied to a company partaking in related activities explicitly indicated that they were less likely to apply".
"Only 55% of respondents who indicated some level of concern and had applied to a company partaking in related activities explicitly indicated that they were less likely to apply to roles at the particular companies."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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- Moral disengagement is the most common justification category among job-seeking CS students rationalizing ethically concerning employment choices — related
- Respondents overestimate apathy in their field: for most ethical issues, students' own concern exceeds the concern they perceive among CS peers — related
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Only 55% of concerned respondents who had applied to a company engaged in concerning activities said the knowledge made them less likely to apply |
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Only 55% of concerned respondents who had applied to a company engaged in concerning activities said the knowledge made them less likely to apply |
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