'[Studies] had been twisted and manipulated, like so many media narratives related to race, in a way calculated to sow additional distrust and resentment. Why? Because there is a publicity reward for publishing such results, true or false.' -freddoso
Why does this happen? One reason is that academics feel intense pressure to"publish or perish," which incentivizes sensationalism, the manipulation of data, and even fabrication. Add to this the incentives involved in race-grifting, and you have a perfect storm of academic fraud on your hands.A $190,000-a-year criminology professor named Eric Stewart has just abruptly departed Florida State University under a cloud, the Florida Standard reported last week.
This problem was brought to the co-authors' attention eight years later. Only one of them, Justin Pickett of SUNY Albany, was willing to pursue the matter to its logical endpoint and expose what, as he argued in a 27-page essay, definitely looks like something much worse than just a few honest mistakes. Among his complaints:2) The article reports 91 counties, but actually there are 326.4) The article reports two significant interaction effects, but actually there are none.
8) Although never mentioned in the article, 208 of the 500 respondents in the data have imputed values. That's pretty serious stuff. The good news is that the actual data suggest the country is not so racist after all — or at least, not in the specific manner that the original paper had claimed. No, people do not demand heavier sentences for black or Hispanic defendants just because the black and Hispanic populations around them are growing.
After Pickett made his concerns public, Stewart complained to the resulting Committee of Inquiry that Pickett had"lynched me and my academic career." Like any race grifter, he believed he could get away with saying things like this because he is black. And the committee, incredibly, took a hint and let him off the hook. Without even demanding to examine his original data, the three-member panel gave him the benefit of the doubt that this was just a case of simple error, not dishonesty.
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