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What motivates research fraud?
"There is pressure to publish as scientists [...] There are labs that are run by big egos who might say to a young researcher, 'Why did your experiment fail? I will hire someone else who will make it work' [...] The graduate students and the postdocs might be the ones photoshopping, but who is responsible for the atmosphere and the integrity of the lab? That’s the professor" - @ElisabethBik
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/science-sleuth-looks-to-expose-research-fraud
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Science Sleuth Looks To Expose Research Fraud
Elisabeth Bik is on a mission to find scientific duplicates and fakes — and thousands of people are watching.Anna Funk (Discover Magazine)
A new study suggests that providing an "accurate alternative" is most effective.
Misleading graphs can omit baselines to exaggerate differences and cherry-pick sections of data to hide greater trends. The other methods tested included providing a warning arrow pointing to the issue or an educational or general text warning next to the graph.
https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21070207
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Debunking strategies for misleading bar charts
Graphs are useful to communicate concisely about complex issues. Although they facilitate intuitive reading of data, trends, and predictions, hasty readers may still come to the wrong conclusions, especially if graphs are misleading due to violated d…JCOM - The Journal of Science Communication