Like so many other scientific scandals, the one Juliana Schroeder had identified quickly sank into a swamp of closed-door reviews and taciturn committees. Schroeder says that Harvard Business School declined to investigate her evidence of data-tampering, citing a policy of not responding to allegations made more than six years after the misconduct is said to have occurred.
~ Daniel Engber

via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024

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Anonymous surveys of various fields find that roughly 2 percent of scholars will admit to having fabricated, falsified, or modified data at least once in their career. But business-school psychology may be especially prone to misbehavior. For one thing, the field’s research standards are weaker than those for other psychologists. In response to the replication crisis, campus psychology departments have lately taken up a raft of methodological reforms.
~ Daniel Engber

via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024

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