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by rscho 698 days ago
It's far worse than that. People using numbers as supportive arguments often generated said numbers themselves, from scratch (meaning, they also collected the data). I'm currently redoing a study from an old prof. The old study was of a more trusted design, and found a massively positive effect. The new study (including old data) has an effect firmly grounded on zero. Those people aren't even always dishonest. They're just incompetent.