<![CDATA[Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination]]>This post did not contain any content.]]>https://forum.ieu.app/topic/ac013f60-597c-4b05-8272-23fd935a0149/evidence-of-fraud-in-an-influential-study-about-procrastinationRSS for NodeSat, 05 Sep 2026 16:14:14 GMTTue, 01 Sep 2026 07:59:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination on Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:45:33 GMT]]>Ariely has been in a heap of scandals about this sort of thing. Becoming a celebrity addicted to attention will do that to you.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27568590https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27568590Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:45:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination on Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:01:38 GMT]]>Looking at what they found, it seems that the study authors themselves suffered from procrastination that much that they randomly created data that that fit their hypothesis about 10 minutes before the paper was due. They really phoned that in - if i actually attempt fraud, i would at least try to make the data look somewhat reasonable. Non-correlating values for liking a task and finding a task interesting, or noncorrelating performance in 3 nearly identical task is not even trying to be compelling lol

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