{"id":1156,"date":"2021-08-19T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:29:52","slug":"detecting-data-fraud-miles-and-miles-of-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/detecting-data-fraud-miles-and-miles-of-fabrication\/1156\/statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Data Fraud: Miles and Miles of Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Data-Colada_Logo-with-tagline-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1157\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Does signing an honesty pledge at the top or bottom of a document increase honesty? That was the question researchers explored in a field study about reporting on a car&#8217;s mileage. But the data from that study may be fake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A post from DataColada.org entitled, &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/datacolada.org\/98\" target=\"_blank\">Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty<\/a>&#8221; breaks down the data and looks at several anomalies, including: an implausible distribution (with a histogram as evidence), the nature of numbers reported (whether it&#8217;s natural to report rounded numbers or not), differences in fonts, and several others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post is a fascinating look at forensic data analysis in which a careful examination of data can reveal potential irregularities. As the post concludes, open science helps, &#8220;Data should be posted. \u00a0The fabrication in this paper was discovered because the data were posted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does signing an honesty pledge at the top or bottom of a document increase honesty? That was the question researchers explored in a field study about reporting on a car&#8217;s mileage. But the data from that study may be fake. 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