Fabricated data in an honesty study? :-\ An overview of current (August 2023) developments in accusations of data fraud in academic research against Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino. This video is stitched together shorter videos with deep dives on how the researchers at the Data Colada blog rooted out likely fake data and data manipulation in published research that has now been retracted - partly because of fonts and Microsoft Excel. Gino is currently on unpaid administrative leave from Harvard.
00:00 accusations of data fabrication against Dan Ariely
01:28 uncovering fake data because of fonts and mileage
04:28 uncovering fake data with microsoft excel
07:34 the case against Francesca Gino
11:42 incentive structures in academia
P.S. Yes, those are Clippy earrings. I got them from Etsy. :)
Data Colada (datacolada.org) posts:
- [98] Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty
- [109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake"
- [110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard"
- [111] Data Falsificada (Part 3): "The Cheaters Are Out of Order"
- [112] Data Falsificada (Part 4): "Forgetting The Words"
Other sources and references for further reading:
- "Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher" (Science, 8/24/21)
- "Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you?" (Planet Money, 7/28/23)
- "Embattled by Data Fraud Allegations, Business School Professor Francesca Gino Files Defamation Suit Against Harvard" (Harvard Crimson, 7/23/23)
- "Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data. Now her million-dollar empire is crumbling - and scholars are eyeing who's next." (Business Insider, 8/21/23)
- "Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end" (PNAS, 2012, retracted)
- "Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty" (PNAS, 2020)
- "The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud" (The Cut, 5/25/15)
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