From the «Jesus Fucking Christ, guys» department:
Feed: SoylentNews
Title: Honesty Study to be Retracted over Faked Data
Author: martyb
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:13:00 -0400
Link:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/08/26/222254&from=rss
JoeMerchant[1] writes:
Dan Ariely Retracts Honesty Study Based On Fake Data[2]:
A landmark study that endorsed a simple way to curb cheating is going to be retracted nearly a decade later after a group of scientists found that it relied on faked data.
According to the 2012 paper, when people signed an honesty declaration at the beginning of a form, rather than the end, they were less likely to lie. A seemingly cheap and effective method to fight fraud, it was adopted[3] by at least one insurance company, tested[4] by government[5]agencies[4] around the world, and taught to corporate executives. It made a splash among academics, who cited it in their own research more than 400 times.
The paper also bolstered the reputations of two of its authors — Max Bazerman,
a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Dan Ariely, a psychologist and behavioral economist at Duke University — as leaders in the study of decision-making, irrationality, and unethical
behavior. Ariely, a frequent TED Talk speaker[6] and a Wall Street Journal advice columnist[7], cited the study in lectures[8] and in his New York Times bestseller The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves.
A group of outside sleuths scrutinized the original paper’s underlying data and
stumbled upon a bigger problem: One of its main experiments was faked “beyond any shadow of a doubt,” a team of anonymous coward researchers concluded in a post on the blog: Data Colada, on August 17, 2021[9].
The bigger issue, to me, is why we have not instituted "black box warnings" on all stories which report conclusions based on self reported data?
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Links:
[1]:
http://soylentnews.org/~JoeMerchant/ (link)
[2]:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/dan-ariely-honesty-study-retraction (link)
[3]:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3068506/lemonade-is-using-behavioral-science-to-onboard-customers-and-keep-them-honest (link)
[4]:
http://38r8om2xjhhl25mw24492dir.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BIT_FraudErrorDebt_accessible.pdf (link)
[5]:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/2016%20Social%20and%20Behavioral%20Sciences%20Team%20Annual%20Report.pdf (link)
[6]:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_ariely (link)
[7]:
https://www.wsj.com/news/types/ask-ariely (link)
[8]:
https://youtu.be/RVix6vognrY?t=2680 (link)
[9]:
https://datacolada.org/98 (link)
[10]:
http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=50880 (link)
[11]:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/08/26/222254&from=rss (link)
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