The Data Whisperers

The Interesting Times podcast is back with a new episode featuring a discussion with Prof. Lydia Wilkes of Auburn University and Prof. Ira Allen of Northern Arizona University. We use the recent cases of data manipulation by Harvard professor Francesca Gino as a point of entry to explore much wider (and more important) issues tied to how ‘knowledge’ about society is produced.

As promised in the show, here is a link to the blog Data Colada where several experts in the field of quantitative analysis point to extremely convincing evidence that a series of studies co-authored by Gino demonstrate clear instances of data manipulation. It is interesting and not technically overwhelming, so please check it out if you want to dig into to the numbers a little bit further.

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