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A landmark study that endorsed a simple way to curb cheating is going to be retracted nearly a decade later after a group of scientists found that it relied on faked data.
According to the 2012 paper, when people signed an honesty declaration at the beginning of a form, rather than the end, they were less likely to lie. A seemingly cheap and effective method to fight fraud, it was adopted by at least one insurance company, tested by government agencies around the world, and taught to corporate executives. It made a splash among academics, who cited it in their own research more than 400 times.
The paper also bolstered the reputations of two of its authors — Max Bazerman, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Dan Ariely, a psychologist and behavioral economist at Duke University — as leaders in the study of decision-making, irrationality, and unethical behavior. Ariely, a frequent TED Talk speaker and a Wall Street Journal advice columnist, cited the study in lectures and in his New York Times bestseller The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves.
Years later, he and his coauthors found that follow-up experiments did not show the same reduction in dishonest behavior. But more recently, a group of outside sleuths scrutinized the original paper’s underlying data and stumbled upon a bigger problem: One of its main experiments was faked “beyond any shadow of a doubt,” three academics wrote in a post on their blog, Data Colada, on Tuesday. More
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They must have had their fingers crossed when they did that Landmark study.
The people who wrote the original study did not collect the data? What did the do, buy it off Craig’s List? I thought that people who do studies also collected the data, unless maybe the study was about how data was collected.
On the other hand, I wonder how much the national debt and the cost of higher education would be reduced if the number of “studies” was greatly reduced. Most people who conduct studies first find out what the backers of the study want to prove then go from there.
I suppose the “study” was funded by a government grant which means the money was forced from taxpayers by the point of a gun. I also suppose the recipients of the funds would be OK with this which means they themselves are thieves and liars.
FAKE “academics” at HAH-vud and the University of New Joisey @ Durhamn (NC)… well color ME shocked, why don’tcha?
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Well, so what. That’s the way the CDC and EPA perform studies
It’s not funny anymore:
Glenn Greenwald — CNN and Lib Media are controlled by the CIA:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/glenn-greenwald-cnn-and-lib-media-are-controlled-by-the-cia/
Science!
A Dominion study???
If you never believe anything, you will almost always be right.
Has anyone not figured out that the academy is ruined. Government grant seeking, Marxism, poor scholarship, being untethered to any traditions…
It’s over. What replaces it will fun to see and will be way better.