Category Archives: Deception

Supreme Court Selection Bias?

Posted on September 3, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Where do Supreme Court justices get their facts from? Oftentimes, they get their “facts” from amicus curiae legal briefs that are filed by “friends of the court,” i.e. private parties with axes to grind. Now, check out this fascinating report by Adam … Continue reading →

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A reverse-Facebook experiment

Posted on August 12, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Our friends at Facebook recently received a lot of bad press for conducting a masssive secret psych experiment on 700,000 of its users without their consent. (Update: The journal that published Facebook’s research published a pusillanimous Expression of Concern but did not … Continue reading →

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The ethics of flopping

Posted on July 5, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

A reader of The New York Times asked Chuck Klosterman (a/k/a “The Ethicist”) the following thought-provoking questions about the ethics of flopping in football: “If (nearly) every player does it, is it wrong to flop? … If flopping is part of the game, … Continue reading →

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