A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors

Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by ben_jones on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:37PM (#12646531)

While I trust your story, and I believe it's somewhat taboo on HN to ask for this, I feel that it would be much more valuable if evidence was provided. That is an absolutely egregious act for a professor to commit and I feel like it should be reported to someone if substantiated..

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by dmd on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:44PM (#12646584)

Oh, I made a huge stink about it (and this was just one example of many comments of that type). This was at Penn in 2007.

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by tgb on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:48PM (#12647715)

Not to question you, but I can't find any evidence that Fiske was ever teaching at Penn. Her CV [1] is quite exhaustive, but only lists giving colloquia at Penn.

[1] http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1605966/27061956/14652...

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by dmd on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:38PM (#12648142)

She was one of the people giving the Social Psychology prosem in Fall 2005, because John Sabini (who normally gave it) died:

> September 21: The Self (Prentice) > September 28: Social Cognition (Fiske) > October 5: Attitudes (Cooper) > October 19: Social Inference (Pronin) > November 2: Prejudice & Stigma (Shelton) > November 16: Dissonance (Cooper) > November 30: Close Relationships (Fiske) > December 7: Social Influence (Prentice)

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by tgb on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:44PM (#12648190)

Thanks.

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by Lambdanaut on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:48AM (#12652885)

> Not to question you

It's quite okay. That's exactly the kind of attitude that's being scrutinized here ;)

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by DiabloD3 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:54PM (#12646675)

An upvote for outing her for clearly bad science and bad teaching, if she actually did this. There are few things that offend me, a teacher damaging impressionable students like this is one of those.

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by jacquesm on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @05:45AM (#12691529)

I think she mostly damaged herself there, the student seems to have come out all right (but there was a risk they wouldn't have).

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