Uri Simonsohn
Appearances
Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
It's a platform that we launched. It's called As Predicted. And it's basically eight questions that people write. Your co-authors sign on it. It's timestamped. People, you can show the PDF. And when we launched it, we thought, okay, when do we call this a failure? You know, thinking ahead, when do you shut down the website? All right, if we don't get 100 a year, we're going to call it failure.
Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
I mean, the incentives are part of the problem, but I don't think it's a part of the problem that we have to fix. That, again, is Yuri Simonson from Data Colada. I think the incentives... It's like, why do people rob banks? Because their incentives are there. But it doesn't mean we should stop, you know, rewarding cash. It's just we should, you know, make our saves safer.
Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
Because it's good for cash to buy things. And it's good for people who publish interesting findings to get recognition.