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That would be interesting, if universities had full time academic integrity officers whose job was to detect academic fraud.
by FabHK 5y ago
That would be interesting, if universities had full time academic integrity officers whose job was to detect academic fraud.
- MattGaiser 5y agoOr just have some academic equivalent to SDETs. Have a replication and analysis team that checks that statistical quality, code, basic science, etc.
- immmmmm 5y agoafter having spent a third of my life in academia i don't see this happening: everyone want as many as possible articles, if possible in the most high impact journals. detecting fraudulent or irrelevant pieces is against that goal.
- matthewdgreen 5y agoI don't think people understand how hard this would be, or how much it would impede science. To give an analogy to coding: imagine a company with thousands of programmers, all using different languages and writing different types of code (mobile apps, back-end server apps, mainframe code, device firmware). Now assign one or two poorly-paid employees whose job is to review all of their code and find issues with it. Can you imagine how annoying this would be? How much time you would spend simply explaining to these people what your code does, so they could understand the basics of what your program is even doing? How ineffective they would be at detecting actual fraud, and how quickly their processes would turn into yet another annoying layer of bureaucracy and checklist compliance? There are a lot of things Universities could do to assist scientists in producing better output. This is not one of them.