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Why is the article's title phrased with the word "problematic" rather than "duplicated" or outright "fraudulent"? Are we trying not to offend someone's sensib
by supernova87a 3y ago
Why is the article's title phrased with the word "problematic" rather than "duplicated" or outright "fraudulent"? Are we trying not to offend someone's sensibilities, or not leap to conclusions (when in fact, journals have been far too reluctant to do what they should have been doing about this kind of academic dishonesty)?
- whatshisface 3y agoAI can't do a full investigation and identify it as fraudulent, it can only find out when it's weird-looking.
- huytersd 3y agoBecause it’s trying to collapse multiple types of “problems” into one word in the title.
- jychang 3y agoAnd also because "creating problems" that need to be double checked, is a much lower bar than "fraudulent"; especially if accusing someone of fraud can carry slander/libel charges.
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- hyperhopper 3y agoI am always skeptical when I see the word "problematic". It is often used to handwave over what the actual problem is, and is very often used when the supposed problem is either trivial or a subjective judgement that many people wouldn't even deem to be a problem.
- bagels 3y agoThings like this are why you cannot immediately know it's fraud: a bug in xerox copiers changes numbers to other numbers due to some OCR nonsense. http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
- dmbche 3y agoJesus christ