Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

[PoS]

Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

“The data were also altered — intentionally or unintentionally — in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in his reque…

nypost.com

In his 2019 complaint, Pickett said that their findings showed no relationship between the growth of minority groups and the severity of criminal sentences handed to them.

Despite the result, the paper was published with “altered” data to claim there was a correlation, with Pickett noting that many of the changes appeared to have been tacked on just before publication.

Although Pickett declined to comment on the latest investigation against his colleague, he claimed that researchers have an incentive to publish studies and face little repercussions.

“There’s a huge monetary incentive to falsify data and there’s no accountability. If you do this, the probability you’ll get caught is so, so low,” he told the Standard.

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

“The data were also altered — intentionally or unintentionally — in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in his reque…

nypost.com

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

You'd have a stronger case if the guy's work was NOT retracted and if the guy was NOT run out on a rail.

as is, it looks like academia are purging their ranks of a fraudster
which seems appropriate, imho
ymmv

Maybe you think they should have ignored the guy's fraud?
or what exactly?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

There is a certain irony in a libertarian drawing attention to the corrupting influence of money.

 

[Grandpappy]

Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

“The data were also altered — intentionally or unintentionally — in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in his reque…

nypost.com

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

That’s the way they roll.

 

[Rexedgar]

That’s the way they roll.

How many professors have you met, other than changing their oil?

 

[PoS]

You'd have a stronger case if the guy's work was NOT retracted and if the guy was NOT run out on a rail.

as is, it looks like academia are purging their ranks of a fraudster
which seems appropriate, imho
ymmv

You obviously failed to read the article, nor did you read the quotes I made.

"Pickett claimed his complaint was ignored by the university for months, and it was only after four more complaints were made against Stewart’s other studies focusing on race that the school launched a committee to look into the matter."

"Although Pickett declined to comment on the latest investigation against his colleague, he claimed that researchers have an incentive to publish studies and face little repercussions."

Maybe you think they should have ignored the guy's fraud?
or what exactly?

Oh look, a strawman! Typical woke tactic.

There is a certain irony in a libertarian drawing attention to the corrupting influence of money.

There's no irony when a wokeist who knows nothing about Libertarianism acts like he's an expert on it.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

There's no irony when a wokeist who knows nothing about Libertarianism acts like he's an expert on it.

Was that English?

 

[TheParser]

Only $190,000?

His photograph portrays a gentleman who seems to deserve at least $1,000,000 a year.

"Racism" is a lucrative racket for a lot of people. (Just ask that reverend on MSNBC!)

 

[dmpi]

All soft sciences are prone to bias "intentional or unintentional" because of the methodologies uses. You cannot sample from the historical record without injecting at least some bias. The start date and end date will bias your results. Your sample size & interval will provide more bias. Even if you randomly sample your 'experiment' represents your one time selection. That said these results are not without value but one has to be cognizant of the usefulness of the results. Politics is all about using bad science to drive goverment policy.

 

[ttwtt78640]

All soft sciences are prone to bias "intentional or unintentional" because of the methodologies uses. You cannot sample from the historical record without injecting at least some bias. The start date and end date will bias your results. Your sample size & interval will provide more bias. Even if you randomly sample your 'experiment' represents your one time selection. That said these results are not without value but one has to be cognizant of the usefulness of the results. Politics is all about using bad science to drive goverment policy.

A big flaw in many ‘disparate impact’ studies is that they assume correlation indicates (proves?) causation, demanding that you prove them wrong. Using that nonsense could indicate (prove?) that milk drinking leads to alcoholism.

 

[dmpi]

A big flaw in many ‘disparate impact’ studies is that they assume correlation indicates (proves?) causation, demanding that you prove them wrong. Using that nonsense could indicate (prove?) that milk drinking leads to alcoholism.

Very true. Causation is a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition.

 

[JMB802]

Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

“The data were also altered — intentionally or unintentionally — in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in his reque…

nypost.com

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

Why do you read that paper? The front page is filled with trash. Do you not feel the brain cells dying as you scroll down?

 

[Superfly]

How many professors have you met, other than changing their oil?

 

[Superfly]

Why do you read that paper? The front page is filled with trash. Do you not feel the brain cells dying as you scroll down?

It’s the Post. It’s like reading the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Very true. Causation is a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition.

It’s very complicated, since many (potentially important) statistics are simply missing (thus completely ignored). For example, UCR reporting includes the race of the (alleged) perp (when known), yet not whether they came from a ‘broken home’, whether they displayed early aggressive behavior or their level of education.

Developmental predictors of offending and persistence in crime: A systematic review of meta-analyses

Meta-analyses have provided major findings about developmental predictors of offending. However, there has been little focus on their relative ability…

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[Donatello]

Was that English?

Not really. But they tend to just approximate.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Anytime that someone manipulates data to force a "study" outcome we should be concerned, no matter who did it and no matter who reported it.

Now if we are disputing that this happened, like missed reporting or something, that is another matter.

 

[Grand Mal]

That’s the way they roll.

As in they purge their ranks of fraudsters?

 

[Grandpappy]

As in they purge their ranks of fraudsters?

Making up lies to further the communist agenda.
We've seen the same game literally hundreds of times.
I'm glad they got called on it.

 

[JRTurner]

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

For a minute, it sounded like you were talking about Fox News. I wonder when they'll start retracting and firing those activist celebrities they highlight every night on primetime

 

[ttwtt78640]

As in they purge their ranks of fraudsters?

Yep, they purge some reluctantly, slowly and after many complaints.

 

[Grand Mal]

Florida professor leaves $190,000-a-year job following claim he faked data on racism studies

“The data were also altered — intentionally or unintentionally — in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in his reque…

nypost.com

Yup, falsifying data because these people are not honorable researchers, but activists trying to advance their own woke agenda. Science has become politicized, all thanks to libs.

What's your problem? He was shown to be a fraud and run out of town. By liberals. Everyone associated with a university is a liberal, right?
No, wait, I get it! This isn't about ideology for you, it's about complexion! You think this guy's race is the reason he lied!
Finally decided to stop pretending and come out of the closet, huh?

 

[Grand Mal]

Yep, they purge some reluctantly, slowly and after many complaints.

Whereas conservatives embrace fraudsters if they think they can piggy-back to power on them.
AhemTrumpcough.

 

[Grand Mal]

Making up lies to further the communist agenda.
We've seen the same game literally hundreds of times.
I'm glad they got called on it.

"They" didn't get called on it. He got called on it. "They" did the calling.
Try to pay attention.

 

[dmpi]

It’s very complicated, since many (potentially important) statistics are simply missing (thus completely ignored). For example, UCR reporting includes the race of the (alleged) perp (when known), yet not whether they came from a ‘broken home’, whether they displayed early aggressive behavior or their level of education.

Developmental predictors of offending and persistence in crime: A systematic review of meta-analyses

Meta-analyses have provided major findings about developmental predictors of offending. However, there has been little focus on their relative ability…

www.sciencedirect.com

There is nothing more complex than human behavior. I'm not sure we'll ever fully understand it. You can design controlled experiments to subtract out other varibles, but nothing tells you what those varibles are or if you caught all of them. People tend to use Occam's Razor when when they're too intellectually lazy to figure it out or the results already jive with their preconceived beliefs. I probally do that myself. As I mentioned the real problem is when people use these questionable results to drive policy or when the ignore their own observations and common sense and let others do their thinking.