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Ira writes:
Last month we did a story about canvassers who’d invented a way to go door to door and, in a 22-minute conversation, change people’s minds on issues like same sex marriage and abortion rights. We did the story because there was solid scientific data published in the journal Science – proving that the canvassers were really having an effect. Yesterday one of the authors of that study, Donald Green, asked Science to retract the study. Some of the data gathered by his co-author seems to have been faked.
Our original story was based on what was known at the time. Obviously the facts have changed. We’ll update today as we learn more.
The apparent fakery was discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford who tried to replicate the findings in the original study. How they figured it out is a great story in itself.
The person who did the bulk of the work on the original study is a graduate student at UCLA named Michael LaCour. He needed a way to figure out people’s attitudes before canvassers came to their doors and for many months afterwards.
Last month we did a story about canvassers who’d invented a way to go door to door and, in a 22-minute conversation, change people’s minds on issues like same sex marriage and abortion rights. We did the story because there was solid scientific data published in the journal Science – proving that the canvassers were really having an effect. Yesterday one of the authors of that study, Donald Green, asked Science to retract the study. Some of the data gathered by his co-author seems to have been faked.
Our original story was based on what was known at the time. Obviously the facts have changed. We’ll update today as we learn more.
The apparent fakery was discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford who tried to replicate the findings in the original study. How they figured it out is a great story in itself.
The person who did the bulk of the work on the original study is a graduate student at UCLA named Michael LaCour. He needed a way to figure out people’s attitudes before canvassers came to their doors and for many months afterwards.
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