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The Credibility Crisis in Science: Tweakers, Fraudsters, and the Manipulation of Empirical Results

by Thomas Plümper , Eric Neumayer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780262051279
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
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  • Pages: 308
  • Original Price: USD 40.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Research & Methodology

A novel perspective on scientific fraud--how undisclosed "tweaks" to research designs and model specifications fuel the credibility crisis in science.

In The Credibility Crisis in Science, leading social scientists Thomas Pl�mper and Eric Neumayer argue that the most impactful fraud is crucially under-recognized. While data fabrication and manipulation are widely recognized as fraudulent, "tweaks"--the intentional selection of research designs and model specifications based on the results they give--are not. As a consequence, the credibility crisis in science is even more severe than both scientists and the public believe.

The authors show how easily observational data analyses, experimental designs, and causal models are tweaked in ways that are extremely difficult, often impossible, to detect. They also argue that conventional strategies to deter, prevent, and detect fraud will not work for tweaks. They put forth two potential solutions: first, a classification system that categorizes data based on its susceptibility to manipulation and the probability of such manipulation being identified; and second, the proposal that journal editors and reviewers, rather than authors, select robustness tests.

Thomas Plümper is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Head of the Department of Socioeconomics. He is author of numerous articles and coauthor, with Eric Neumayer, of Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research.

Eric Neumayer is Professor of Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography. He is LSE's Deputy President and Vice Chancellor.

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