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I tried to go through the "Room-temperature superconductivity — or not?" paper related to the "[We] proved basically mathematically that the raw data are not me
by kraussvonespy 4y ago
I tried to go through the "Room-temperature superconductivity — or not?" paper related to the "[We] proved basically mathematically that the raw data are not measured in the laboratory; they are fabricated" comment. I'll admit, the paper is well over my head. Long time no college science classes.
I'm curious about the methods used to determine that the data was fabricated though. Would someone mathier than me help answer this: Was the fabrication of data determined through a mathmatical analysis of the actual data numbers ala Benford's Law? Or was this determined more through a scientific analysis of the experiment that determined that the numbers weren't possible?
- sigmoid10 4y agoStuff like Benford's law or the central limit theorem are trivial observations that anyone with some basic statistics knowledge could have called out. But that also means anyone who has some education in the field could easily falsify plots to avoid that, so you will not catch real physicists with those methods. The problems in the paper that was eventually retracted were only visible to experts who actually work on this very topic. Here they talk about some of the abnormalities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03595-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03595-z
- kraussvonespy 4y agoLooking forward to giving the Nature paper a read. I appreciate your time and wisdom!