Graphic detail | The font’s the thing
How data detectives spotted fake numbers in a widely cited paper
Everyone accepts that the data were fabricated. No one admits to forging them
IF YOU WRITE a book called “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty”, the last thing you want to be linked to is fake data. Yet a paper by Dan Ariely, a professor at Duke University, seems to be based on just that.
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