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Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by spondylosaurus »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #150
spondylosaurus wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Little diversity of opinion and worldview how? (Should DEI teams be hiring people who are against diversity, equity, and inclusion?)

> Should DEI teams be hiring people who are against [...] Yes, otherwise you're saying hiring is just a political test.

No it's not, lol. Logistically speaking, it makes zero sense to hire an anti-diversity advocate for a DEI role. Companies only have DEI teams because they want to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; they wouldn't hire someone who's actively going to detract from that effort.

It'd be like hiring a reckless loudmouth who loves to make people look bad as your head of PR. Literally the opposite of what you need them to accomplish.

(I also find it suspect that equity or inclusion are "political," but that's another matter.)

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Post by zigman1 »

jstarfish wrote: post #80
rqtwteye wrote: post #43

There is this pattern where things are always the opposite of their message: - Dishonesty expert is dishonest - Politicians who constantly talk about freedom want to restrict anything that doesn't fit their world view - Militant anti-gay preachers hire call boys - Diversity teams are the least diverse

We like these fall-from-grace stories but there's a subpattern to this that can't be articulated so easily. Literal "corruption" comes close. See also: every freedom fighter that launches a coup to overthrow a dictator, then becomes a dictator themselves within a decade. Or cops that get caught stealing child porn from the evidence locker, despite not being pedophiles by any definition. Not all these types start this…

Therre is this amazing political theory book called The Dictator's Handbook [1] by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith which itself is a popularized version of their Theory of Selectoriat (i am not sure if it is a cortect translation) from Mesquita's book called The Logic of Political Survival. I highly recommend it, for me it is one of the most important books I've ever read. It explains exactly what you wrote about.

CGP Grey made great recap in one of his videos [2] called Rules for Rulers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook [2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&feature=share8

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by currymj »

paulpauper wrote: post #32

Maybe he is to blame, but the social sciences in general are inherently vulnerable to this sort of problem. There have been many instances of similar incidents over the past few decades or so. not just overt academic fraud but misconstruction of data, excel errors, poor methodology, publication bias, etc. This calls into doubt if anything in the social sciences can really be trusted.

life sciences is just as bad if not worse -- you can read news stories about many cases of outright photoshopped images in biology papers by respected researchers in major journals.

physics has a good reputation, but then you hear of things like apparent fraud in that quantum computing paper about Majorana fermions...

computer science actually seems relatively okay as far as avoiding outright fraud, probably because there's such a strong norm of sharing code. plenty of questionable research practices though.

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by hawk_ »

jamessb wrote: post #4

The FT article says: 'A group of academics who compile the Data Colada blog about the evidence behind behavioural science has started publishing a series of posts in which they say they will detail “evidence of fraud in four academic papers” co-authored by Gino'. The first two of these blog posts are: https://datacolada.org/109 https://datacolada.org/110

Reading this makes me want some CSI like TV show based on forensics using statistics and excel files!

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by FreshStart »

All anti-corruption departments are either ousted by the growth or integrated. Or you are integrated, fail that, then ousted for failed integration. Conclusion: ablative process design. Everytime corruption sets in, the system sheds "skin" and starts anew with a fresh layer.

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by jstarfish »

zigman1 wrote: post #163
jstarfish wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We like these fall-from-grace stories but there's a subpattern to this that can't be articulated so easily. Literal "corruption" comes close. See also: every freedom fighter that launches a coup to overthrow a dictator, then becomes a dictator themselves within a decade. Or cops that get caught stealing child porn from the evidence locker, despite not being pedophiles by any definition. Not all these types start this…

Therre is this amazing political theory book called The Dictator's Handbook [1] by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith which itself is a popularized version of their Theory of Selectoriat (i am not sure if it is a cortect translation) from Mesquita's book called The Logic of Political Survival. I highly recommend it, for me it is one of the most important books I've ever read. It explains exactly what you wrote about. CGP Gr…

That is fascinating; thanks for the recommendations!

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by jack_riminton »

anonymouskimmer wrote: post #155
jack_riminton wrote: post #69

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Corporate entities with “innovation” in their titles are most definitely not innovative e.g. Innovation Managers have most likely never done an innovative thing in their life

Good managers are not necessarily good at the task they are managing. There's nothing odd about this. A good manager should have a great understanding at what they are managing, but not necessarily be individually competent at it.

If that were true, why do the most innovative companies not have Innovation Managers?

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by philbo »

rossdavidh wrote: post #59
Trombone12 wrote: post #15

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From the second link: > students approached this “Year in School” question in a number of different ways. For example, a junior might have written “junior”, or “2016” or “class of 2016” or “3” (to signify that they are in their third year). All of these responses are reasonable. > A less reasonable response is “Harvard” [...] Nevertheless, the data file indicates that 20 students did so. Moreover, and adding to the p…

It all suggests that, in addition to falsifying data, they had become so blase about falsifying data that they weren't particularly careful about it. Which suggests that they may have been falsifying data for a long time...

From the first blog post linked above:

> We discovered evidence of fraud in papers spanning over a decade

> We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data. Perhaps dozens.

Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

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Post by mnw21cam »

eru wrote: post #92
IggleSniggle wrote: post #41

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For similar reasons, I left academia. I joined academia for the pursuit of truth, and forth the glory of Knowing. But it turned out that academia doesn’t really do this anymore, it just sells itself as doing these things. Academia is entirely a “reputation” system, as it turns out, from paper publishing to student-evaluations to “public rankings.” As it turns out, the capitalist marketplace must also contend with the…

> But it turned out that academia doesn’t really do this anymore, it just sells itself as doing these things. What do you mean by 'anymore'. Was there some golden age of bygone glory?

I think they meant "any more".
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