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.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie

She and a collaborator (who wished to remain anonymous, for fear of professional retribution) approached Data Colada. The team had had its own doubts about Gino since 2014, but had concluded that a full investigation was more trouble than it was worth. Now, however, they scrutinized her previous work, and found multiple instances of data that seemed to be misbehaving. #Ziani said, “The magnitude of the fraud was potentially so gigantic that they didn’t want to be merely one hundred per cent sure but one thousand per cent sure.”

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