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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Who Did It?

We have been following the Gino/data manipulation affair at Harvard.* From the Harvard Crimson:

Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino — who came under fire for allegations of data manipulation — suggested that Boston University professor and co-author Nina Mažar tampered with her data, according to an internal HBS report. Mažar, whose name has not been previously reported, was identified in the report as one of two female co-writers with Gino on a prominent 2012 study, following which The Crimson confirmed her identity. The copy of the report was unsealed by a judge on Thursday with redactions of Mažar’s name throughout the document.

“I was stunned to learn of Professor Gino’s false claims about me,” Mažar wrote in a statement Tuesday evening. “Those claims have no basis in reality,” Mažar added. “I am nevertheless grateful that Harvard undertook the work necessary to spell out all the reasons that her allegations amount to nothing but an unfortunate attempt to shift the blame and focus from her.” ...

According to the report, Gino provided two initial defenses in response to the investigation: that the data anomalies were due to honest error, and that someone other than her tampered with the data...

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/19/gino-suggests-mazar-manipulation/.

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