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Delay action
On February 25, one of the most spectacular delays he has read the pleasure of the reaction has appeared again. The retraction note is that when a scientific journal decides a study published so that it is not such a mistake and reliable without publishing it.
New retraction note It is not covered, not two, but five articles Perception and motor skillsall Nicolas Guéguen at Southern University of Brittany in France.
Five studies were published between 2002 and 2009. To select a unique one, the only author of a study entitled “in 2007Bust size and hitchhiking: field study“. He wants to show using real-world experiments, women with larger breasts to pick up in hitchhiking. Two years later, this time with a colleague, he found that Blonde women are also likely to be able to take a walk.
Being such results, it is not surprising that Guéguen’s work became a well-known issue for news. Allah, this is New scientistThat covered in 2008 study (Not yet back) Claim Women had a greater reception for chat lines when they are at the top of the monthly fertility.
It took almost another decade to start shaking cards for houses. In 2017, Nick Brown researchers (Who blogged as “Steamtraen”and James Heathers He began writing about the work of Guenguena. They found It was very prosperous, often “10 single or more empirical articles publishes a year … many of them extensive rural work”. Quickly lifting the question: How did he find the time? They also became suspicious of the big-claimed effects.
And then the card house began to push. In 2019, International Review of Social Psychology addedConcerns statements“To six guards of Guéguen. In 2022, Social Psychology Magazine retract If a study claimed that men claimed women invented it red, it notices that “A table in the manuscript had four means and standard deviations, reported sample sizes“. In the same year, Scandinavian Psychology Journal The man caused a statement of concern to claim that they were able to help a woman “When the hair fell on his neck, his shoulders and the upper back“.
And now come Recent delays. The release of them is Doozy, covered in academic language. “Low confidence has been as described as the study design” and “a large part of these articles that are implausibers or misinterpreted.” In other words: We don’t think he did what he did, and he did wrong at any event.
Editors say that guéguen did not answer answer. In fact, in view of the nature of his work, the feedback suspects that his only response will be: “Infamy! Infamy! They all got it for me!”
Those who give it very right to have the last word: “Remember, simply trusting, embarrassing, if you write Benny-hill-ass examinations and someone did that wrong … thenHe could also be quite well for seven years before it has been wider consequences. “
Botticelli XXX Peacock
A few weeks ago, feedback write Scunthorpe about black problem: difficulty blocking offensive words online, when chains of the same letter are often found within completely innocent words, such as the names of English peoples. Three readers have told us that without falling into our email filters, about similar experiences.
Richard Black has its time as a college technician in the early 2000s, when he asked a student to help set up the Hotmail email account. (Note for young readers: Hotmail is an old system used by your parents, Microsoft’s business software market.) Richard writes: “We tried and finally given and managed to create a Yahoo account.” (Note for young readers: Yahoo was … The truth is, really, is still around Yahoo.) However, the student’s last name was peacock.
At the same time, the Richard Hind “budget was given to set the email filtering solution”. It worked quite well, some of the strange nuances that they thought is offensive. “The only model was sent to other places.
A thought also thought of Patricia Finney, who wrote bld About optimism in front of climate change, and illustrated with Botticelli’s reproduction Venus birth. Facebook discarded “Nudity and nails“I am waiting for the apology,” he explained.
Delicious
Feedback’s reading stack is like an experimental spacecraft Thunderbirds The passage is so reluctant to add. But a Board of books A food historian took his eye. A dark history of sugar They are delicious remotely delicious remote adventures based on the sugar industry. In a lighter note, The philosophy of the well It sounds wonderful, and the headings were surprised He wants to know: Baking history. Author of these calories? Neil Buttery.
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