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PODCAST ALERT: “Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)”

This is Part 2 of a two-part podcast series on academic fraud from Freakonomics.com hosted by Stephen Dubner. (See here for the TRN post about Part 1.) The original podcast was aired in January 2024 but was recently updated on January 1st,…

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PODCAST ALERT: “Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)”

Check out the following podcast on academic fraud from Freakonomics.com hosted by Stephen Dubner. Among other things, it provides fascinating details about the Francesca Gino fraud scandal, including interviews with Max Bazerman, one of Gino’s Harvard co-authors, and the Data…

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Fudging Data About Dishonesty

[Excerpts are taken from the blog “Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty” posted by Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, Leif Nelson and anonymous researchers at Data Colada] “This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have…

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Announcing a New Replication Column at Data Colada (Albeit a Little Late)

[From the blog “[81] Data Replicada” by Joe Simmons and Leif Nelson, posted in December at Data Colada] “With more than mild trepidation, we are introducing a new column called Data Replicada. In this column, we will report the results…

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IN THE NEWS: NY Times Magazine (October 18, 2017)

[From the article “When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy” by Susan Dominus at nytimes.com]  “As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly,…

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Did it Replicate? Or Didn’t It?

[From the blogsite, Data Colada] As noted previously in TRN, the Social Sciences Replication Project is replicating 21 experimental studies published in Nature and Science from 2010-2015.  To determine whether the original studies replicate, the associated team of researchers is using the following rule:…

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