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It all suggests that, in addition to falsifying data, they had become so blase about falsifying data that they weren't particularly careful about it. Which sug

• qup 3y ago
  Alternatively, they had such little practice that they weren't good at it.
  • rossdavidh 3y ago
    Perhaps, but I think a first-timer would be able to avoid those mistakes, especially if they were thinking, "oh boy, this is a really bad and risky thing I am doing here, I better double and triple check". On the other hand, if it's a normal (for you) thing you're doing, which you have to do on most of your papers, then on some days you're going to rush it.
    • qup 3y ago
      Normalized deviance, sure
• philbo 3y ago
  From the first blog post linked above: > We discovered evidence of fraud in papers spanning over a decade > We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data. Perhaps dozens.