Episode 038: Dirty Data
Monkey Mind
English - October 18, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBScience Society & Culture science research ecology computer science linguistics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Grace and David talk about fudging data, data illiteracy, misaligned incentives, and all the ways in which data is used and misused in science.
Note: this will be our last episode.
Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law)
My personal favorite Dilbert strips on Software Quality (https://medium.com/@nairgirish100/my-personal-favorite-dilbert-strips-on-software-quality-be90b46e2f04)
Elisabeth Bik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik)
Homo economicus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus)
Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data)
Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/)
[110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" - Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/110)
Max Bazerman's 2021 response to fraud evidence (http://datacolada.org/storage_strong/fraud.resonse.max_.8.13.21.pdf)
Complicit (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236544/complicit)
eLife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELife)
eLife Reviewed Preprints (https://elife-rp.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_rev_instructions#process)
Bad Pharma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma)
Significant (https://xkcd.com/882/)
The Fall of a Superstar Psychologist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tSG8h_O3A)
Grace and David talk about fudging data, data illiteracy, misaligned incentives, and all the ways in which data is used and misused in science.
Note: this will be our last episode.
My personal favorite Dilbert strips on Software Quality
Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money
[110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" - Data Colada