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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed. By Daniel Engber1/2

November 19, 2024, 11 AM ET (Nine Page Article on How Bad It Is, Academic Fraudtoo long to post, link below)

For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023. Schroeder teaches management and psychology at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

One of her colleagues—­­a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino—­had just been accused of academic fraud. The authors of the blog post, a small team ofbusiness-school researchers, had found discrepancies in four of Gino’s published papers, and they suggested that the scandal was much larger. “We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data,” the blog post said. “Perhaps dozens.”

The story was soon picked up by the mainstream press. Reporters reveled in the irony that Gino, who hadmade her name as an expert on the psychology of breaking rules, may herself have broken them. (“Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings,” a New York Times headline read.) Harvard Business School had quietly placed Gino on administrative leave just before the blog post appeared. The school had conducted its own investigation; itsnearly 1,300-page internal report, which was made public only in the course of related legal proceedings, concluded that Gino “committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly” in the four papers. (Gino has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.)

Schroeder’s interest in the scandal was more personal. Gino was one of her most consistent and important research partners. Their names appear together on seven peer-reviewed articles, as well as 26 conference talks.If Gino were indeed a serial cheat, then all of that shared work—and a large swath of Schroeder’s CV—was now at risk. When a senior academic is accused of fraud, the reputations of her honest, less established colleagues may get dragged down too. “Just think how horrible it is,” Katy Milkman, another of Gino’s research partners and atenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, told me. “It could ruin your life.”

To head that off,Schroeder began her own audit of all the research papers that she’d ever done with Gino, seeking out raw data from each experiment and attempting to rerun the analyses. As that summer progressed, her efforts grew more ambitious. With the help of several colleagues, Schroeder pursued a plan to verifynot just her own work with Gino, but a major portion of Gino’s scientific résumé. The group started reaching out to every other researcher who had put their name on oneof Gino’s 138 co-authored studies. The Many Co-Authors Project, as the self-audit would be called, aimed to flag any additional work that might be tainted by allegations of misconduct and, more important, to absolve the rest—and Gino’s colleagues, by extension—of the wariness that now afflicted the entire field.

That fieldwas not tucked away in some sleepy corner of academia, butwas instead a highly influential one devoted to the science of success. Perhaps you’ve heard that procrastination makes you more creative, or that you’re better off having fewer choices, or that you can buy happiness by giving things away. All of that is research done by Schroeder’s peers—­business-school professors who apply the methods of behavioral research to such subjects as marketing, management, and decision making. In viral TED Talks and airport best sellers, on morning shows and late-night television,these business-school psychologists hold tremendous sway. They also have a presence in this magazine and many others: Nearly every business academic who is named in this story has been either quoted or cited by The Atlantic on multiple occasions. A few, including Gino, have written articles for The Atlantic themselves.

Business-school psychologists are scholars, but they aren’t shooting for a Nobel Prize. Their research doesn’t typically aim to solve a social problem; it won’t be curing anyone’s disease. It doesn’t even seem to have much influence on business practices, and it certainly hasn’t shaped the nation’s commerce.Still, its flashy findings come with clear rewards: consulting gigs and speakers’ fees, not to mention lavish academic incomes. Starting salaries at business schools can be $240,000 a year—double what they are at campus psychology departments, academics told me….

https://archive.is/sACBU

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The research scandal that has engulfed this field goes far beyond the replication crisis that has plagued psychology and other disciplines in recent years. Long-standing flaws in how scientific work is done—including insufficient sample sizes and the sloppy application of statistics—have left large segments of the research literature in doubt. Many avenues of study once deemed promising turned out to be dead ends. But it’s one thing to understand that scientists have been cutting corners. It’s quite another to suspect that they’ve been creating their results from scratch.

Schroederhas long been interested in trust. She’sgiven lectures on “building trust-based relationships”; she’s run experiments measuring trust in colleagues. Now she was working to rebuild the sense of trust within her field. A lot of scholars were involved in the Many Co-Authors Project, but Schroeder’s dedication was singular. In October 2023, a former graduate student who had helped tip off the team of bloggers to Gino’s possible fraud wrote her own “post mortem” on the case. It paints Schroeder as exceptional among her peers: a professor who “sent a clear signal to the scientific community that she is taking this scandal seriously.” Several others echoed this assessment, saying that ever since the news broke, Schroeder has been relentless—heroic, even—in her efforts to correct the record.

But if Schroeder planned to extinguish any doubts that remained, she may have aimed too high.More than a year since all of this began, the evidence of fraud has only multiplied. The rot in business schools runs much deeper than almost anyone had guessed, and the blame is unnervingly widespread. In the end, even Schroeder would become a suspect.

Gino was accused of faking numbers in four published papers. Just days into her digging, Schroeder uncovered another paper that appeared to be affected—and it was one that she herself had helped write.

The work, titled“Don’t Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety,”was published in 2016, with Schroeder’s name listed second out of seven authors. Gino’s name was fourth. (The first few names on an academic paper are typically arranged in order of their contributions to the finished work.) The research it described was pretty standard for the field: a set of clever studies demonstrating the value of a life hack—one simple trick to nail your next presentation. The authors had tested the idea that simply following a routine—even one as arbitrary as drawing something on a piece of paper, sprinkling salt over it, and crumpling it up—could help calm a person’s nerves. “Although some may dismiss rituals as irrational,” the authors wrote, “those who enact rituals may well outperform the skeptics who forgo them.”

In truth, theskeptics have never had much purchase in business-school psychology. For the better part of a decade, this finding had been garnering citations—­about 200, per Google Scholar. Butwhen Schroeder looked more closely at the work, she realized it was questionable. In October 2023, she sketched out some of her concerns on the Many Co-Authors Project website.

The paper’s first two key experiments, marked in the text as Studies 1a and 1b,looked at how the salt-and-paper ritualmight help students sing a karaoke version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” in a lab setting. According to the paper, Study 1a found that people who did the ritual before they sang reported feeling much less anxious than people who did not; Study 1b confirmed that they had lower heart rates, as measured with a pulse oximeter, than students who did not.

As Schroeder noted in her October post, the original records of these studies could not be found. But Schroeder did have some data spreadsheets for Studies 1a and 1b—she’d posted them shortly after the paper had been published, along with versions of the studies’ research questionnaires—andshe now wrote that “unexplained issues were identified” in both, and that there was “uncertainty regarding the data provenance” for the latter. Schroeder’s post did not elaborate, but anyone can look at the spreadsheets, and it doesn’t take a forensic expert to see that the numbers they report are seriously amiss.

=The “unexplained issues” with Studies 1a and 1b are legion. For one thing, the figures as reported don’t appear to match the research as described in other public documents. (For example, where the posted research questionnaire instructs the students to assess their level of anxiety on a five-point scale, the results seem to run from 2 to 8.)But the single most suspicious pattern shows up in the heart-rate data.

https://archive.is/sACBU go to this link to read the other 7 pages.

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Just imagine how much fraud there is at NIH

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and 'large-scale firings'

The idea could affect over 1 million federal workers who are eligible for remote work. (So What) Nov. 20, 2024, 4:21 PM EST By David Ingram

Incoming Trump administration advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday floated ending remote work for federal workers, calling the practice a “privilege” left over from the pandemic.

The two tech industry figures raised the idea in an opinion piece published online in The Wall Street Journal, saying it would be a straightforward means for shrinking the federal workforce.

“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” the two men wrote.

That could affect more than 1 million federal workers. About 1.1 million federal civilian employees, or46% of civilian personnel, are eligible for some amount of telework, according to an August report from the Office of Management and Budget. About 228,000 employees, or 10% of personnel, are in remote positions with no expectation that they work in-person on any regular or recurring basis, the report said.

The Biden administration ordered federal agencies in 2023 to “substantially increase meaningful in-person work,” but it also left some flexibility in place, citing operational costs like office space, the need to recruit “top talent” and other factors.

Musk and Ramaswamy are co-heads of what President-elect Donald Trump has called a Department of Government Efficiency, although their roles are advisory and it won’t be an official department unless Congress passes a law creating it. The acronym, DOGE, is a reference to an internet meme and cryptocurrency that Musk has promoted for years.

The suggestions made in the opinion piece are some of the first concrete policy suggestions the pair have advocated for in relation to their new roles.

In the lead-up to Trump’s election and during the transition, Musk has been an increasingly present and influential figure in Trump’s orbit, repeatedly appearing with Trump in meetings with lawmakers and world leaders.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has taken a strict approach to remote work at his companies since the Covid-19 pandemic began to wind down. Musk announced a return-to-office policy at Tesla and SpaceX in 2022, ordering employees back for a minimum of 40 hours per week on site, though his edict was hampered at the time by a lack of space and resources, CNBC reported then.

The future of remote work for office-based employees is hotly debated. While some companies such as Amazon have joined Tesla and SpaceX in calling workers back, other companies are using remote work as a recruiting and retention tool that appears to have some staying power.

Some unionized federal workers have criticized Musk and Ramaswamy, saying they don’t know what they’re doing. (Boo Hoo)

“It is clear that Musk and Ramaswamy simply do not understand how the federal workforce is staffed or operated,” said Randy Erwin, national president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, in a statement about DOGE’s work generally.Erwin said the two tech figures “make absurd claims about government waste and bash dedicated federal employees.” His union says it represents 110,000 federal employees. (So what they all vote Democrat, they can go)

In their opinion piece, the two also suggested other ways to cut federal jobs including “large-scale firings” and the “relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area.”They also outlined a series of other ideas for cutting federal spending and repealing government regulations and cited recent Supreme Court precedent that they said would give Trump wide leeway.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-ramaswamy-float-large-scale-firings-ending-remote-work-federal-em-rcna181065

(Just wait when this starts moving,the federal employees will reveal how much worse it is, and how they've got away with it for 50 years, there's a lot more that will be exposed in this process. Complaining publicly is not a good idea, especially in an emotional state.)

TSA administrator makes bid to stay on under Trump

David Pekoske's term leading the agency doesn't expire until 2027.

Oriana Pawlyk 11/20/2024, 9:55pm ET

Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske is signaling that he'd like to stay on in his current role as President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term.

During a segment about Thanksgiving travel with CBS on Tuesday, Pekoske was clear that he's hoping to stay until his term ends in 2027, saying that he “loves” the role.

"It’s important for continuity in TSA to run the second term to its conclusion,” he said, adding that the agency has made numerous investments and increased partnerships not just in air travel but on surface transportation security, too.

A TSA spokesperson on Wednesday backstopped Pekoske’s comments. Pekoske “was instrumental in pushing for equal pay of all TSA employees to make them commensurate with the rest of the federal government” among other initiatives like lowering workforce attrition and increasing screener employees at airports, the spokesperson said.

“The agency has come a long way in innovation and technology under his tenure to increase security effectiveness, efficiency and the customer experience,” the spokesperson added.

A number of aviation and travel industry executives attending the U.S. Travel Association’s conference echoed that desire for continuity in interviews Wednesday.

Tori Emerson Barnes, U.S. Travel’s executive vice president for public affairs and policy, told POLITICO at the event that the industry has had a “really great working relationship” with Pekoske, who’s “leaned in, pushing innovation and has worked on really driving change at the organization.”

“He was first nominated and confirmed in Trump's first term, and so he's been a steady hand, a consistent voice that really has led the way” on these initiatives, Barnes said. “Our hope would be that he would stay until the end of his term.”

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/20/congress/head-of-tsa-wants-to-stay-00190817

Was he the one that put Tulsi Gabbard on the watch list? TSA chief begs to keep his job, it certainly seems likes he’s got a cheerleading team trying to convince Trump to keep him.