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Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Last year UCLA political science grad student and maybe soon-to-be
> Princeton professor Michael LaCour released stunning findings from a
> field trial on gay marriage called “When Contact Changes Minds.” He
> found that a 20-minute conservation with a house-to-house canvasser
> could convert huge numbers of opponents into supporters, at least if the
> canvassers explained they were gay and told personal stories.
> 
> The study quickly became a media sensation, the most talked-about
> poli-sci paper in years, and it led gay-rights activists including some
> working on the Ireland referendum to retool their voter outreach.
> 
> The problem is that Mr. LaCour stands accused of faking everything from
> start to finish. Ph.D. candidates at Berkeley David Broockman and Josh
> Kalla tried but failed to replicate Mr. LaCour’s results. They then
> noticed unusual statistical irregularities in Mr. LaCour’s survey panel.
> He now says he pulled a Hillary Clinton and deleted his raw data. But
> the canvassing firm he claimed to have employed has never heard of the
> project—and there is no proof anyone was ever contacted, much less
> changed their minds.
> 
> "accused of faking everything from start to finish"
> 
> "unusual statistical irregularities"
> 
> all you guys are a bunch of crooks...if you stand behind him.



"Mr. LaCour denies wrongdoing"



Of course, 'faking everything from start to finish' is not wrong, or
doing it wrong....it may be illegal, a fedral offence, but
it isn't ....wrongdoing.


Murder isn't wrongding..
Stealing isn't wrongdoing..

maybe illegal...but certaintly not wrong..


You guys call it...'doing it right.'

"unusual statistical irregularities"... is 'doing it right.', isn't it?


.."faking everything from start to finish" is 'doing it right.', isn't
it???



Fuck the illegal...the illegal we do imeadately, the doing it right
takes a little longer to do..

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the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 12:29 -0700
  Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 13:54 -0700
    Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 14:06 -0700
    Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-06-06 18:05 -0700
      Re: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-07 00:07 -0700

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