Richard Gill
Statistician, professor, scientist
Apophenia. Simonsohn’s Fraud Detection Technique Revealed » Random Assignment. Uri Simonsohn’s “secret” paper describing the analyses he used to detect fraud in the Dirk Smeesters and Larry Sanna cases has now been submitted for publication and is available on SSRN. It’s titled “Just Post It: The Lesson from Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone.” Simonsohn explains the analyses he used to detect and confirm the fraud and calls on journals to make the publication of raw data their default policy. Here’s the abstract: I argue that journals should require authors to post the raw data supporting their published results.
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