I was able to attend a continuing education short course workshops at the JSM conference that proved to be quite insightful. The discussion was on data mining and was titled “Applied Data Mining Analysis: A Step-by-Step Introduction Using Real-World Data Sets”. The presentation was given by Dan Steinberg and the examples that he gave were […]
It never occurred to me until today to write a post about why faking data is bad. However, I noticed an interesting exchange on Andrew Gelman's blog (see the comments on this post about Marc Hauser). One commenter argued that it was not clear that Haus...
... or to be more precise, what's up with experimental social psychology?A number of high profile cases of suspected (in some cases admitted) fraud have been highlighted in psychology recently - my own discipline - but they've (nearly all arisen in exp...
