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The article suggests it's unreasonable numbers in the original Uzbekistan data source and that other datapoints may have been worse, the authors just didn't cor
by rao-v 2mo ago
The article suggests it's unreasonable numbers in the original Uzbekistan data source and that other datapoints may have been worse, the authors just didn't correctly execute their basic checks.
"It turns out that Uzbekistan wasn’t even the biggest outlier, but that the version they had published had the axes cropped so you couldn’t see the outliers..."
- tjwebbnorfolk 2mo ago> had the axes cropped so you couldn’t see Almost sounds intentional... > This seemed indicative of a different issue, which is why we documented it in the comment. Yea, that different issue is fraud.
- rdtsc 2mo agoThey are dancing around the accusation to help authors save face. Extreme incompetence (as in don’t let these people near 100 feet of any Excel spreadsheet level) could be another explanation but given the cropping issue it’s probably intentional