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Emergency Pod: Harvard Fake Data Scandal
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Gino's Incentivization
A Harvard professor manipulated data to get surprising results and inflate her findings. The researchers focused on suspicious data and found extreme reactions from participants with duplicate IDs. This skewed the outcome and proved the researcher's hypothesis. While scientists should celebrate failures, researchers like her are incentivized to find surprising results for fame and recognition. Although she shouldn't have tampered with the data, her actions highlight how she was motivated to do so.
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