FT: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

Paywalled Financial Times link

Source blogs (first 2 published entries of 4) —

[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake"
[110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard"

 

Hopefully real version control systems will prevent or highlight that, but otherwise —

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So an expert in dishonesty has been dishonest, getting away with it for at least a decade?

They've used their training in dishonesty, presumably to do it properly, much better than unqualified non expert dishonesterers.

Getting away with it for over a decade - that's ongoing commitment, and skill, in their chosen field, that is.

I mean, what did people thing that skill set was going to be used for?

Bakers bake, vets vet, mechanics mechanic, experts on dishonesty, clearly......

 

See, CBT does work.

 

“That’s right:
Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty.”

 

I just a priori assume that anything appearing in top psychology journals is fake. The more impactful the journal, the faker.

 

If they get fired from being scientists the car dealerships will have their phones ringing off the hook with job offers.

 

Guardian article today: Harvard professor who studies honesty accused of falsifying data in studies

 

Accused professor is suing.

https://fortune.com/2023/08/02/harvard-dishonesty-professor-lawsuit-fraud-defamation-bias/

https://twitter.com/user/status/1686889113985695745

 

Now also in the New Yorker in long form: They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?
-- Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

https://archive.ph/ifxn6

 

Another article—NY times—long.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/...QEK4iiu_w1HiRzEPRZBSqKoUZWu4Bu&smid=url-share

 

The sheer brazenness of this woman suing Data Colada. This sort of "fake it till you make it" attitude is very much encouraged in organisational psychology / business circles.

 

Here’s the Unsealed Report Showing How Harvard Concluded That a Dishonesty Expert Committed Misconduct — (Archived)