SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Cherry Picking
23 Jan 2012
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* best 2/3 for quizzes if you attempt all 3. Yes, low lead in their environment had a higher intelligence. Laws were put in placed based on this work. Nd ways to say bullshit lead does not cause these problems. They hire researchers (scar and edhart) to look at the needleman s study: 1975 - collected teeth from 3, 329 rst-and second-grade children. Asked why he chose the 270? (he narrowed down to similar socioeconomic backgrounds) Noticed he only reported on 158 children when he chose 270 and didn t tell us why. Accused needleman of cherrypicking his data (picking the best of the data to show to get signi cant results) Needleman was charged with academic misconduct because of this kind of reporting. Was brought up on a hearing to see if that paper should be retracted or even if he should lose his credentials and have his phd taken away from him.
