The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:50:24 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-a-huge-fraud.html>

"The exposure of one of the biggest scientific frauds in recent memory
didn’t start with concerns about normally distributed data, or the
test-retest reliability of feelings thermometers, or anonymous Stata
output on shady message boards, or any of the other statistically
complex details that would make it such a bizarre and explosive scandal.
Rather, it started in the most unremarkable way possible: with a
graduate student trying to figure out a money issue."

Interesting article on the difficulty of dealing with research fraud.

Via Dave Farber.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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