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Max Bazerman

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Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

We know it works. We know the effects are big. We know the world is intrigued by it. Seems perfect.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

We know it works. We know the effects are big. We know the world is intrigued by it. Seems perfect.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

That's a terrific mythological critique. So what you just said logically makes sense. I think as of the time we were doing these online studies, and there are many of them, I don't think that there was widespread public awareness of the signing of first effect. You know, Ariely and Gino and I talked to lots of executive classes, but I wouldn't say it was a well-known social phenomena.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

That's a terrific mythological critique. So what you just said logically makes sense. I think as of the time we were doing these online studies, and there are many of them, I don't think that there was widespread public awareness of the signing of first effect. You know, Ariely and Gino and I talked to lots of executive classes, but I wouldn't say it was a well-known social phenomena.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

That's a terrific mythological critique. So what you just said logically makes sense. I think as of the time we were doing these online studies, and there are many of them, I don't think that there was widespread public awareness of the signing of first effect. You know, Ariely and Gino and I talked to lots of executive classes, but I wouldn't say it was a well-known social phenomena.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

But I could be wrong, so your methodological critique could be viable. But anyhow, signing first effect With or without a placebo doesn't work online. We got nothing. How surprised were you? Very. And I kind of said, well, let's take a look at what we did. Let's see sort of how we might have messed up the design. Let's try again. So we make some changes, we do it a second time.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

But I could be wrong, so your methodological critique could be viable. But anyhow, signing first effect With or without a placebo doesn't work online. We got nothing. How surprised were you? Very. And I kind of said, well, let's take a look at what we did. Let's see sort of how we might have messed up the design. Let's try again. So we make some changes, we do it a second time.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

But I could be wrong, so your methodological critique could be viable. But anyhow, signing first effect With or without a placebo doesn't work online. We got nothing. How surprised were you? Very. And I kind of said, well, let's take a look at what we did. Let's see sort of how we might have messed up the design. Let's try again. So we make some changes, we do it a second time.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

We make some changes, we do it a third time. Still, no effect, no effect, no effect. And recall, the 2012 paper not only has effects, it has effects across three different studies that are all statistically significant, and the effects are large. So the project clearly transforms somewhere between replication failure three to five.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

We make some changes, we do it a third time. Still, no effect, no effect, no effect. And recall, the 2012 paper not only has effects, it has effects across three different studies that are all statistically significant, and the effects are large. So the project clearly transforms somewhere between replication failure three to five.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

We make some changes, we do it a third time. Still, no effect, no effect, no effect. And recall, the 2012 paper not only has effects, it has effects across three different studies that are all statistically significant, and the effects are large. So the project clearly transforms somewhere between replication failure three to five.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

It's transforming from how do we get people to tell the truth online to a massive replication failure of a pretty visible academic effect. And so after we fail six times, we decide, well, let's go back and do a large-scale replication of one of the original lab studies.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

It's transforming from how do we get people to tell the truth online to a massive replication failure of a pretty visible academic effect. And so after we fail six times, we decide, well, let's go back and do a large-scale replication of one of the original lab studies.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

It's transforming from how do we get people to tell the truth online to a massive replication failure of a pretty visible academic effect. And so after we fail six times, we decide, well, let's go back and do a large-scale replication of one of the original lab studies.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Certainly, I would feel some sense of maybe guilt is the right word, that my name's on a paper that people are using when I no longer think that they should be using it. But, you know, I didn't think that I was doing anything wrong. And quite honestly, I'm still not thinking fraud at this point. I just don't know what's going on. I'm thinking of cleaning up the record.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Certainly, I would feel some sense of maybe guilt is the right word, that my name's on a paper that people are using when I no longer think that they should be using it. But, you know, I didn't think that I was doing anything wrong. And quite honestly, I'm still not thinking fraud at this point. I just don't know what's going on. I'm thinking of cleaning up the record.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Certainly, I would feel some sense of maybe guilt is the right word, that my name's on a paper that people are using when I no longer think that they should be using it. But, you know, I didn't think that I was doing anything wrong. And quite honestly, I'm still not thinking fraud at this point. I just don't know what's going on. I'm thinking of cleaning up the record.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Ariely and Nina Mazar both continued to argue, well, it works some of the time, it doesn't work other times, and we need to do more studies to find out when it works and when it doesn't. And my attitude, so I won't speak for other co-authors, was to basically say we have plenty of evidence. to conclude that we should tell the world that we have no faith that this effect works.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Ariely and Nina Mazar both continued to argue, well, it works some of the time, it doesn't work other times, and we need to do more studies to find out when it works and when it doesn't. And my attitude, so I won't speak for other co-authors, was to basically say we have plenty of evidence. to conclude that we should tell the world that we have no faith that this effect works.

Freakonomics Radio
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Ariely and Nina Mazar both continued to argue, well, it works some of the time, it doesn't work other times, and we need to do more studies to find out when it works and when it doesn't. And my attitude, so I won't speak for other co-authors, was to basically say we have plenty of evidence. to conclude that we should tell the world that we have no faith that this effect works.