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Posted on June 8, 2010 9:45 AM by Andrew

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  1. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 9, 2026 8:39 PM

    Daniel – I appreciate the time you took to dig into the math. My understanding of your analysis - without…

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  3. paul alper on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 6:13 PM

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  4. Roger Schlafly on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 6:12 PM

    This excuse is particularly bad: "a single case report would not generate any interest or ever be cited." So why…

  5. David Ricardo on Guess who’s getting the big-money donations in the Maine U.S. Senate race?July 9, 2026 5:28 PM

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  6. ROLAND E KUHN on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 9, 2026 4:26 PM

    I have a funny story about this. My very first published paper in computational linguistics had an interesting idea in…

  7. Michael Murphy on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 2:36 PM

    This is just using the genre of a case study to impart information that could be imparted differently. Of course…

  8. oncodoc on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 2:11 PM

    I agree that the truth shouldn’t be compromised. However, in real life every “true” clinical story is heavily edited by…

  9. Daniel Lakeland on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 9, 2026 1:44 PM

    I'm going to look carefully at the graphs and things in the paper and try to explain what I think…

  10. Robert on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 1:36 PM

    I am not a medical researcher, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. The one reason I…

  11. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 9, 2026 1:32 PM

    Anonymous— Thank you. I do now see the methodological principle you're articulating, and I appreciate that because it makes the…

  12. paul alper on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 11:56 AM

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  13. Andrew on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 10:31 AM

    Proxomitron, Oh, I see, good catch. I guess my take on all this is that there's a value to real…

  14. Proxomitron on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 10:14 AM

    I absolutely agree, but in the post you said " I think there’s a bigger problem with these fabricated case…

  15. Andrew on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 10:11 AM

    Proxomitron, I have no problem with made-up stories. In statistics research and education we sometimes call these "simulation experiments" or…

  16. Proxomitron on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 10:08 AM

    If made-up stories, even when labelled as fictional, are bad, then does that mean novels are bad? Judging by your…

  17. Hao Ye on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 10:00 AM

    To me, the boundary on using synthetic data for learning depends greatly on the specific learning goal. Are you teaching…

  18. Andrew on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 9, 2026 9:51 AM

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  19. Dale Lehman on “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction”July 9, 2026 9:47 AM

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  20. Robert on Structural equation modeling (SEM) and positive definitenessJuly 9, 2026 5:57 AM

    I think the biggest questions arise from the Bayesian approach to SEM (especially when moving a bit more into IRT-land…

  21. Robert on Structural equation modeling (SEM) and positive definitenessJuly 9, 2026 5:36 AM

    1. You asked what (b)lavaan do to handle structural zeroes in the covariance matrices. As of a few years ago,…

  22. AAAnonymous on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 9, 2026 2:50 AM

    Quote from above: "I am unfamiliar with the problems with the p-curve analysis. Can someone point me to the reading?…

  23. AAAnonymous on A new episode in the Francesca Gino caseJuly 9, 2026 2:34 AM

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  24. Anonymous on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 11:32 PM

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  25. Other Andrew on Claude builds 3D Hamiltonian Monte Carlo animation in one shot with anaglyphsJuly 8, 2026 9:06 PM

    You get out what you put in. If this stuff is so easy to make, I doubt creating it is…

  26. elin on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 8:59 PM

    That is a really scary story about your colleague. If I did that I would be looking over my shoulder…

  27. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 8:40 PM

    As I've thought about the Anoneouid comparison more... it's actually a really interesting comparison. My position was never a blanket…

  28. Seth Finkelstein on A new episode in the Francesca Gino caseJuly 8, 2026 8:20 PM

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  29. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 8:06 PM

    Anonymous— Since you've said this will probably be your last comment, let me just summarize where I think we're leaving…

  30. Raphael Nishimura on Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weightsJuly 8, 2026 7:58 PM

    Interesting, thanks! I'll say I'm quite intrigued by that and will try it myself when I have tge opportunity.

  31. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 7:51 PM

    Daniel - I appreciate that you've clarified your position. Earlier, I thought we disagreed about whether things like voluntary behavior,…

  32. Andrew King on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 6:18 PM

    Thank you all for posting. All very informative. My two cents are that knowingly publishing something that misleads is research…

  33. Michael Friendly on Claude builds 3D Hamiltonian Monte Carlo animation in one shot with anaglyphsJuly 8, 2026 4:38 PM

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  34. Jared Huling on Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weightsJuly 8, 2026 3:50 PM

    Somewhat counterintuitively, energy balancing can often have a comparable effective sample size as raking, but when it's much lower it's…

  35. Jared Huling on Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weightsJuly 8, 2026 3:49 PM

    Hi Shira, I should say up front that I'm not an expert on survey sampling, so take all of this…

  36. Raphael Nishimura on Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weightsJuly 8, 2026 3:46 PM

    I'm curious whether the weights produced by the energy balancing have more variability than the raked or post-stratified weights. Intuitively,…

  37. Daniel Lakeland on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 2:49 PM

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  38. Anonymous on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 2:36 PM

    This is depressing. It seems to me that professional association ethical rules often cover this terrain to an extent, but…

  39. AAAnonymous on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 2:36 PM

    Quote from above: "Where does this all stand relative to failing to correct or even doubling down on claims whilst…

  40. Andrew on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 1:50 PM

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  41. Not a paragon on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 1:19 PM

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  43. AAAnonymous on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 11:51 AM

    This is very complicated stuff in my view, and I reason 1) definitions, and 2) interpretations, and 3) being as…

  44. Jonathan (another one) on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 11:44 AM

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  45. Anon on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 11:13 AM

    Yeah, I don't get that either. Fabricating data in the first place is surely also a conscious decision to mislead…

  46. Alex on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 10:37 AM

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  47. Joshua on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 10:33 AM

    Anonymous – As I think more about my last comment, and about the issue of mechanistic causal models, and thinking…

  48. Anonymous on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 9:58 AM

    “Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results?“ I think fabricating data is worse. Other people may use your fabricated data…

  49. Chris on Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place?July 8, 2026 9:46 AM

    I had a related circumstance many years (also decades) ago. I had completed my PhD and submitted a paper with…

  50. Anonymous on Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.July 8, 2026 8:19 AM

    Joshua, “Even if we were talking about two distinct kinds of interventions (which I don’t think we are, because mandatory…

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