What was the DT lie/error?
Hajnal's voter ID response
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Stop responding to yourself, Dustin!
What was the DT lie/error?
There is none. Until someone posts a link to a working paper or a blog post or a tweet stream or something clarifying the alleged fraud, all DT claims are just slander. People jealous of DT’s success.Cite anything clarifying the plagiarism or STFU.
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The plagiarism thing that Judea Pearl pointed out was primarily Imai's fault, not Tingley's. Tingley was a freerider on that article (as on many others). He lacks the skills and IQ to even read and understand Pearl's work, nevermind find ways to adapt it into an article so as to try to make the plagiarism less obvious. Of course, Tingley bears some of the responsibility since sticking your name on other people's work cuts both ways. You get the credit if the work is good, but you also suffer the consequences it's bad or dishonest. I think the posters above are referring to Tingley's ISQ in which he lies about reporting bootstrapped estimates, which was discussed on another thread a long time ago, not to the one plagiarized from Pearl. Although they could be referring to both.
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The plagiarism thing that Judea Pearl pointed out was primarily Imai's fault, not Tingley's. Tingley was a freerider on that article (as on many others). He lacks the skills and IQ to even read and understand Pearl's work, nevermind find ways to adapt it into an article so as to try to make the plagiarism less obvious. Of course, Tingley bears some of the responsibility since sticking your name on other people's work cuts both ways. You get the credit if the work is good, but you also suffer the consequences it's bad or dishonest. I think the posters above are referring to Tingley's ISQ in which he lies about reporting bootstrapped estimates, which was discussed on another thread a long time ago, not to the one plagiarized from Pearl. Although they could be referring to both.
Wow, the pyscho anti-DT troll is back, now with more half-remembered nonsense. No one claimed that Imai or anyone else "plagiarized" Pearl, only that some of their results were implied by other mathematical results in Pearl. There's disagreement on that, by the way, so there's no serious claim there of research misconduct or anything. Claim about a supposed lie about bootstrapping are too vague to take seriously. More unsupported claims about free-riding, with exactly zero evidence.
If DT free-rides, then why do these very top scholars (KI, HM, etc.) consistently ask him to co-author again and again? They're more senior, could co-author with pretty much anyone they want, and yet they regard him as a valuable partner.
Hmm, could this poster just be a jealous loser? Is it possible??
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Can someone give me a short summary of the Hajnal-Grimmer debate. I understand Hajnal published a paper that argued voter ID laws reduce minority turnout. Grimmer found data problems in the Hajnal paper. When the errors were corrected, Hajnal's results disappeared. Then Hajnal responded to Grimmer, apparently in a dishonest or incompetent way.
What were the data errors? And what's the matter with Hajnal's response? Again, just a brief answer is fine. Just curious.
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Can someone give me a short summary of the Hajnal-Grimmer debate. I understand Hajnal published a paper that argued voter ID laws reduce minority turnout. Grimmer found data problems in the Hajnal paper. When the errors were corrected, Hajnal's results disappeared. Then Hajnal responded to Grimmer, apparently in a dishonest or incompetent way.
What were the data errors? And what's the matter with Hajnal's response? Again, just a brief answer is fine. Just curious.Its almost as if there are a series of papers in JOP summarizing this in explicit detail or something
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Hajnal et al coded one state's turnout as 0, which dramatically skewed their results --- so that the point estimate of voter ID laws was to increase turnout. This was implausible, so they just assumed that the sign went the other way and reported this point estimate negative.
The part where they lie in the response is directly quoting *half a sentence* in which the first part negates the part they quoted.
I haven't thought about this in a few months but this second part still baffles me. There's just no way they could get away with it...except for the obscuritanist trolls on this website.
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Hajnal et al coded one state's turnout as 0, which dramatically skewed their results --- so that the point estimate of voter ID laws was to increase turnout. This was implausible, so they just assumed that the sign went the other way and reported this point estimate negative.
The part where they lie in the response is directly quoting *half a sentence* in which the first part negates the part they quoted.
I haven't thought about this in a few months but this second part still baffles me. There's just no way they could get away with it...except for the obscuritanist trolls on this website.Thanks. Unbelievably bad practices.
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Hajnal et al coded one state's turnout as 0, which dramatically skewed their results --- so that the point estimate of voter ID laws was to increase turnout. This was implausible, so they just assumed that the sign went the other way and reported this point estimate negative.
The part where they lie in the response is directly quoting *half a sentence* in which the first part negates the part they quoted.
I haven't thought about this in a few months but this second part still baffles me. There's just no way they could get away with it...except for the obscuritanist trolls on this website.Thanks. Unbelievably bad practices.
They also misinterpret an estimated positive total effect of voter ID on turnout among minorities as a negative effect because the race interaction is negative (but smaller than the coefficient on the lower-order term).
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Hajnal et al coded one state's turnout as 0, which dramatically skewed their results --- so that the point estimate of voter ID laws was to increase turnout. This was implausible, so they just assumed that the sign went the other way and reported this point estimate negative.
The part where they lie in the response is directly quoting *half a sentence* in which the first part negates the part they quoted.
I haven't thought about this in a few months but this second part still baffles me. There's just no way they could get away with it...except for the obscuritanist trolls on this website.
Thanks. Unbelievably bad practices.They also misinterpret an estimated positive total effect of voter ID on turnout among minorities as a negative effect because the race interaction is negative (but smaller than the coefficient on the lower-order term).
they also lie about the models that were present in the original paper. And they claim to run a placebo check that actually isn't a placebo check.
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Hajnal et al coded one state's turnout as 0, which dramatically skewed their results --- so that the point estimate of voter ID laws was to increase turnout. This was implausible, so they just assumed that the sign went the other way and reported this point estimate negative.
The part where they lie in the response is directly quoting *half a sentence* in which the first part negates the part they quoted.
I haven't thought about this in a few months but this second part still baffles me. There's just no way they could get away with it...except for the obscuritanist trolls on this website.
Thanks. Unbelievably bad practices.
They also misinterpret an estimated positive total effect of voter ID on turnout among minorities as a negative effect because the race interaction is negative (but smaller than the coefficient on the lower-order term).they also lie about the models that were present in the original paper. And they claim to run a placebo check that actually isn't a placebo check.
These aren't lies and it does not rise to the level of research misconduct. ZH did not code the data as 0, as is claimed. They were just not careful enough to notice this issue with the data. They misinterpreted their results, but this does not qualify as lying. It was just poorly executed research that was inaccurately reported. The key to research misconduct is intent. Sloppy, yes. Intentionally falsifying research - no.
We do have examples of bona fide research misconduct in our discipline, and nothing happens in those cases. So, the general point is accurate.