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Uri Simonsohn, '[117] The Impersonator: The Fake Data Were Coming From Inside the Lab', DataColada
https://datacolada.org/117
CITING THIS RESEARCHBOX
Simonsohn, U. (2025). ResearchBox 2936, 'DataColada[117] - The Impersonator', https://ResearchBox.org/2936. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15040511
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Uri Simonsohn (urisohn@gmail.com)
ABSTRACT
A previous version of this post was supposed to go live in January 2019. But the day before it was scheduled, the Data Colada team (Uri, Leif, and Joe) received an email that we took to be a potential death threat. After discussions with the local police, the FBI, and our families, we decided to postpone its publication indefinitely. That post provided evidence of data fabrication in a paper authored by Ping Dong, a former professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. We recently learned that Ping Dong’s PhD institution – the University of Toronto – has concluded an investigation into her work that has led them to revoke her PhD after finding it "likely she fabricated data in her thesis" (source: RetractionWatch story).
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'DEAR READER' MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHORS
Dear Reader,
The day this post went live, a reader, Matthias Urlichs, alerted me to an error in Figure 2 which has been fixed: the y-axis label '2_1_3' appeared twice. This has been corrected in the post. The posted R Code here contains the error.
Uri
This version: June 12, 2024
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SUPPLEMENTARY FILES FORUri Simonsohn, '[117] The Impersonator: The Fake Data Were Coming From Inside the Lab', DataColada
https://datacolada.org/117
CITING THIS RESEARCHBOX
Simonsohn, U. (2025). ResearchBox 2936, 'DataColada[117] - The Impersonator', https://ResearchBox.org/2936. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15040511
LICENSE FOR USE
All content posted to ResearchBox is under a CC By 4.0 License (all use is allowed as long as authorship of the content is attributed). When using content from ResearchBox please cite the original work, and provide a link to the URL for this box (https://researchbox.org/2936).
BOX PUBLIC SINCE
June 10, 2024
BOX CREATORS
Uri Simonsohn (urisohn@gmail.com)
ABSTRACT
A previous version of this post was supposed to go live in January 2019. But the day before it was scheduled, the Data Colada team (Uri, Leif, and Joe) received an email that we took to be a potential death threat. After discussions with the local police, the FBI, and our families, we decided to postpone its publication indefinitely. That post provided evidence of data fabrication in a paper authored by Ping Dong, a former professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. We recently learned that Ping Dong’s PhD institution – the University of Toronto – has concluded an investigation into her work that has led them to revoke her PhD after finding it "likely she fabricated data in her thesis" (source: RetractionWatch story).