fake data

Honesty research likely faked data

Mistaken Data / fake data, honesty, Planet Money

Research by Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino suggested that people were more honest…
Scientists with bad data

Mistaken Data / fake data, science, Tim Harford

Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
Some frauds seem comical. In…
How fake data goes viral

Statistical Visualization / fake data

BuzzFeed describes how an article on Daily Mail — that falsely reported claims…
Statistics to weed out fraud

Statistics / fake data, fraud

As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
Science formally retracts LaCour paper

Mistaken Data / fake data, retraction

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…
Graduate student makes up data for fake findings

Mistaken Data / fake data, retraction

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…