Timeline for Would you flag this data as fraudulent?
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 17:56 | history | edited | J-J-J |
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| Jan 16, 2019 at 10:43 | answer | added | mkt | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 7:26 | history | edited | mkt |
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 18:21 | comment | added | Teo | Very helpful answers! In fact, I couldn't figure out their intention from this data only. The only thing that would be beyond reasonable doubt is that this data is unusable (I liked that term). | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | Bernhard | Any specific pattern is highly unlikely to occur randomly, but not all are equally likely to be produced conciously by man. As there is no universal model of how a man would 'create' such data, there is not much point in probability calculation. You might consider a graphical depiction of the symmetry of the data, though. A for demonstration purposes B to give people a feeling of how much this fish stinks. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 13:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackStats/status/955796074588930048 | ||
| Jan 23, 2018 at 13:29 | comment | added | zbicyclist | Agree fully with Nick Cox. Note that ANY specific data pattern is highly unlikely, so the probability estimate is just going to confuse what otherwise is a completely clear and compelling case of unusable data (I'd use that term or something similar rather than fraudulent). | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 13:06 | comment | added | Nick Cox | The ethical issue is paramount here. I'd agree on this information in regarding the data as highly suspect and report it as such; I would never call "fraudulence" because that's for others to determine after investigation and in some countries could lay you open to legal action or its threat. As for attaching a probability estimate, I would back off from that. The case is clear(er) without it and just about every assumption or approximation is open to challenge. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 12:50 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 12:43 | history | asked | Teo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |