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In fact, it strongly suggests that fabricating data is so common, that it doesn't seem dangerous or risky to them, and they take no great amount of care while d
by rossdavidh 3y ago
In fact, it strongly suggests that fabricating data is so common, that it doesn't seem dangerous or risky to them, and they take no great amount of care while doing it. Familiarity breeds contempt. I'm pretty sure the researchers implicated are smart enough to figure out how to fabricate data well, if they wanted to; that they did not bother to do so, suggests a cultural rot.
- tnecniv 3y agoFamiliarity for the researcher breeds contempt. If you succeed once and don’t get caught, it’s easier to do it the second time. It doesn’t require a culture of dishonestly for bad actors to get comfortable breaking rules.
- rossdavidh 3y agoYou're correct that I stated that badly. I didn't mean cultural rot as in "everyone does it", I meant cultural rot as in there isn't much perceived chance of being caught, i.e. not much of a culture of double-checking each others' work, so they do it again and again (until they get sloppy). But you're correct that it doesn't mean most people are doing it.