New info from the Buzzfeed article: > “I can see why it is tempting to think that I had something to do with creating the data in a fraudulent way,” [Ariely] t

New info from the Buzzfeed article: > “I can see why it is tempting to think that I had something to do with creating the data in a fraudulent way,” [Ariely] told BuzzFeed News. “I can see why it would be tempting to jump to that conclusion, but I didn’t.” He added, “If I knew that the data was fraudulent, I would have never posted it.” [..] he said that all his contacts at the insurer had left and that none of them remembered what happened, either. [..] Asked by BuzzFeed News when the experiment was conducted by the insurance company, he first replied, “I don’t remember if it was 2010 or ’11. One of those things.” [..] But Ariely discussed the study’s results in a July 2008 lecture at Google [..] did not have any emails from that time to review. Another quote from an article in The Economist (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/20/a-study-on-dishonesty-was-based-on-fraudulent-data https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/20/a-study-...): > Mr Ariely has requested that the study be retracted, as have some of his co-authors. And he is steadfast that his mistake was honest. “I did not fabricate the data,” he insists. “I am willing to do a lie detection test on that.”