[MostlyStable]

The crazy thing about it is that the author doesn't seem to understand why it's bad. He doesn't appear to be hiding it. He just says "yeah that's what I did, whoops, I forgot to say it in the paper". He's either decided that acting like a complete moron is better than being thought of as an an intentional fraud, or else he really does think it was totally above board.

[richbell]

I had a similar thought. My interpretation is that he genuinely thinks what he did was ok, because Excel has computer magic.

This quote seems unintentionally telling:

> "If we do not use imputation, such data is almost useless,” Heshmati said. He added that the description of the data in the paper as “balanced” referred to “the final data” – that is, the mended dataset.