Category Archives: Deception

Homicide data by weapon

Posted on June 18, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Let’s ban knives, too?  There’s no need for a complicated regression analysis, via Alex Tabarrok (Marginal Revolution), here are the raw data for 2014:

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Prisoner’s dilemma everywhere: weekend email from your boss edition

Posted on May 29, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

As our friends and fellow “forty-something” bloggers at Cheap Talk like to point out, prisoner dilemmas are everywhere. Suppose you are a junior manager at a large Fortune 500 corporation or a junior attorney/accountant at a firm. Your boss sends … Continue reading →

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Will this presidential promise be kept?

Posted on May 5, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Earlier this year, we wrote up an in-depth series of blog posts discussing the moral bases of “the presidential pledge,” i.e. the solemn pledge all the Republican presidential candidates made to support the eventual nominee of their party. (Here is … Continue reading →

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Visualization of the “lucky fool syndrome”

Posted on March 25, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Read the full essay by Carl Richards describing the “Lucky Fool Syndrome” (or self-attribution bias) here.

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Is Judge Judy a fraud?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

She is the highest paid “judge” in the world. In reality, she’s a private arbitrator who pretends to be a real judge on her famous court TV show, but that is not why she might be a fraud, at least … Continue reading →

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Why do politicians lie so much?

Posted on January 3, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

 Is there an “optimal level” of truth telling in politics?

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Espejitos (little mirrors)

Posted on December 14, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Glasswing Butterfly. https://t.co/icwQXPuwoU pic.twitter.com/0tOmEVGy1F — Cliff Pickover (@pickover) December 14, 2015

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Legal liability of Michael J. LaCour and others?

Posted on June 4, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Question 1: When a social science researcher like Michael J. LaCour publishes another bogus or fabricated study in a peer-reviewed journal–or in the case of Alice Goffman, an entire book based on dubious sources–what legal liability (civil or criminal or … Continue reading →

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Annals of deception (world wide web edition)

Posted on April 12, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol
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A 21-word solution for reducing verification bias in the social sciences?

Posted on January 28, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Is social science (especially fields rife with fraud like social psychology) completely worthless? How should we solve the massive problem of verification bias in social science research and in related fields like law, economics, etc.? Via Deborah Mayo, check out … Continue reading →

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