Adding to the irony:
She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.”
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#22That's weak-- accused. Also, who cares if they did lie? Knowing about dishonesty is not the same as positioning oneself as a beacon for morality. This is not front-page HN worthy material.
The actual blog posts make it crystal clear that the data was manipulated to make it provide the desired results. https://datacolada.org/109 https://datacolada.org/110
This blog has a lot of detailed posts if you're interested in this sort of thing, deep dives into how you find fake data (helpful if you need to fake your data better!).
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#23I mean, it takes one to know one.
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#24Whoever is the most honest person on hn, I hereby accuse that person of being a dishonest, impolite dog-botherer.
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#25We have decided we are a post-truth society. Turns out solving that problem is non-trivial when we rely on experts that are themselves human who view the world as post-truth.
You don't get it. They are the experts. They know better than you, so they are going to say whatever is going to make you do what they want done. You are merely observing the shadows on the wall of a cave. Why should they let you make any important decisions?
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#26Adding to the irony: She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.”
As the adage goes, “if you talk about it, be about it.”
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#27We have decided we are a post-truth society. Turns out solving that problem is non-trivial when we rely on experts that are themselves human who view the world as post-truth.
I didn't decide that. I don't think most people I know would. Maybe lots of people feel like "others" have decided that, but they'd hardly do it off their own bat.
(Anyway, what do you mean by "truth"?[0])
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski's_undefinability_theore...
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#28The title is clickbait in the sense that it suggests that we should expect this person to be super honest, and instead they were found to be dishonest. On the contrary, I think we should expect them to be dishonest, and they are. They literally have a book named “Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life”, what did you expect? Of course they're dishonest.
Yes, the title is clickbait because you're smarter than everyone else and so are not surprised.
Being surprised that an expert in dishonesty is dishonest is like being surprised that a lot of pyromaniacs become firemen or that a lot of pedos become teachers and priests - it's something they spend a lot of time doing and thinking about, it makes sense that they'd want to do it for a job if they can. No, I don't think spotting this pattern makes me smarter than everyone else.
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#29Dishonesty is a prerequisite for working for any large, legacy institution.
Re: Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
#30The title is clickbait in the sense that it suggests that we should expect this person to be super honest, and instead they were found to be dishonest. On the contrary, I think we should expect them to be dishonest, and they are. They literally have a book named “Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life”, what did you expect? Of course they're dishonest.
After all, how can you be an expert on something without experience?