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> When discussing Gino with Insider, multiple people brought up the idea of "me-search" — that researchers gravitate to topics that are of personal interest to
by rdtsc 3y ago
> When discussing Gino with Insider, multiple people brought up the idea of "me-search" — that researchers gravitate to topics that are of personal interest to them. "We're our own therapists, in a sense," Gordon Pennycook, a behavioral-science professor, said.
I guess that might be common with students picking psychology as a major, too. Noticed it with a few acquaintances of mine.
> In a study about "contagious dishonesty" that Gino coauthored with Ariely, the researchers found that students were more likely to cheat if they saw someone they believed to also attend their university cheating.
That’s fascinating since both of them fabricated data. At least they can add themselves as the N+1 data point to their study. It’s retracted already, but still good enough for a TED talk or a book probably. /s
Wonder if we have many sincere “coming clean” stories where they explain the thought process behind it. Why they did it, at what point did they decide to go through with it? Did they share their secret with others. Did they feel shame, etc.
- thumbuddy 3y agoI've never seen a coming clean story. But this has been going on at every scale for decades. The scientific method isn't broken but the institutions that surround it and the people riding the tops of it tend to be. It'd be easy to fix but you'd instantly make a million high power enemies with psychopathic tendencies. Oh well.
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- iamandoni 3y agoThe book Faking Science by Diederik Stapel is an excellent view behind the scenes of a serial academic fraudster.
- 19870213 3y agoThat's one way of turning a vice into a virtue... "Right, I've been found out to have fabricated years of research, entire PhDs are now junk. How can I make some more money out of this?"
- toyg 3y agoSame as discredited politicians writing memoirs, WallStreet fraudsters turning into anti-fraud consultants, etc
- rdtsc 3y agoThanks for the advice. I read a few pages and it was well written. I'll continue reading it.
- makeset 3y ago> I guess that might be common with students picking psychology as a major, too. Noticed it with a few acquaintances of mine. That's no secret. Any psych professor will tell you, it's rare to find a student (and consequently, psychologist) whose interest was not sparked by a personal history of mental illness.