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ResearchBox #2936 - 'DataColada[117] - The Impersonator'


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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 13, 2024
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SUPPLEMENTARY FILES FOR
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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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).