The adventures of a self-appointed data police cadet
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I first had this idea about 10 years ago. Don't ask me why I've sat on it for so long. (If you think it's stupid, feel free to mutter "You should have sat on it for a bit longer" under your breath.) This is a serious proposal, so probably I should be doing it with more than just a blog post, but here goes anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think that we † should build a platform to make meta-analyses, systematic…
Readers who have followed the development of GRIM might recall that we (that's me and the Wild Man of Boston ) asked 21 researchers for their data. We got nine datasets, and the responses from the other 12 varied between silence and borderline hostility — in two cases, which shared no co-authors, identically-worded borderline hostility. However, one of the most surprising responses was not a…
In my previous blog post I mentioned that the next one, which you are reading now, would look at a recent paper from Nicolas Guéguen that I investigated using a technique that James Heathers and I (mostly me, this time) developed, which we call RIVETS . RIVETS is a fairly minor part of the data-forensic toolbox. I think it's worth reading the preprint linked above, but then I am biased. However,…
Loyal readers of this blog may have been wondering if there have been any updates on the Nicolas Guéguen story since I wrote this post back in June 2020. Well, actually there have! First, in April 2022 an Expression of Concern was issued regarding the article that I discussed in this open letter , which was the first paper by Guéguen that I ever looked at. Of course, issuing an EOC — which is…
This post is about some issues in Study 3 of the following article: Lee, J. J., Hardin, A. E., Parmar, B., & Gino, F. (2019). The interpersonal costs of dishonesty: How dishonest behavior reduces individuals' ability to read others' emotions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 148 (9), 1557–1574. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000639 On 2023-11-06 I was able to download the article from…
This post is about some issues in the following article, and most notably its dataset: Mo, C. H., Jachimowicz, J. M., Menges, J. I., & Galinsky, A. D. (2023). The impact of incidental environmental factors on vote c hoice: Wind speed is related to more prevention‑focused voting. Political Behavior . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-023-09865-y You can download the article…
In this post I'm going to be discussing this article: Zhang, T., Gino, F., & Norton, M. I. (2016). The surprising effectiveness of hostile mediators. Management Science , 63 (6) , 1972–1992. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2431 You can download the article from here and the dataset from here . [[ Begin update 2023-07-03 16:12 UTC ]] Following feedback from several sources, I now see how it is in…
The investigation of scientific misconduct by Ivy League universities is once again in the news at the moment, which prompts me to write up something that I should have written up quite a while ago. (The time I spend thinking about, and trying to help people understand, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made as big a dent in my productivity as Covid-19.) On October 31, 2018, I sent an open…
In this post I'm going to be discussing this article, but mostly its dataset: Néma, J., Zdara, J., Lašák, P., Bavlovič, J., Bureš, M., Pejchal, J., & Schvach, H. (2023). Impact of cold exposure on life satisfaction and physical composition of soldiers. BMJ Military Health . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2022-002237 The article itself doesn't need much commentary from…
In an earlier post I reported on a number of apparently plagiarised or self-plagiarised articles by Dr Paul McCrory. Since then there have been a number of developments in this story, which has attracted attention from media worldwide, especially in Australia, led by Melissa Davey of the Guardian, who has written about the present blog post here . In this post I present 10 more examples of…
