When writing about Francesca Gino, the Harvard honesty researcher who was exposed for mass fraud, I only briefly touched on something important. Many of the conclusions that these pseudo-intellectuals claim their studies support could easily have alternative explanations. In many cases, the alternative hypothesis for the results ought to be the default hypothesis. To quote myself: All studies, even the ones that have non-fraudulent data, can only show what happened in the study environment. Part of that involves the subjects knowing that they are a part of a study. This can have massive implications, especially for psychological studies. Once people … Continue reading AcademiaLand: Ego Depletion and Privileging the Absurd Conclusion