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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://neuromatch.social/users/jonny/statuses/111910159826234401">jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 15:27:03 JST</a><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny" title="jonny@neuromatch.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/87216-48-20240919064343.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="jonny (good kind)" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">jonny (good kind)</a></section><article><p>They did WHAT<br><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2702739#notice-5360938">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-11T15:27:03+09:00" title="Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 15:27:03 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111910159826234401" rel="external" title="Sent from neuromatch.social via ActivityPub">neuromatch.social</a></span></span><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111910159826234401">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2244314">The student wrote a polite email to the paper’s first author, Almas Heshmati, a professor of economics at Jönköping University in Sweden, asking how he dealt with the missing data. In email correspondence seen by Retraction Watch and a follow-up Zoom call, Heshmati told the student he had used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data. He had marked anywhere from two to four observations before or after the missing values and dragged the selected cells down or up, depending on the case. The program then filled in the blanks. If the new numbers turned negative, Heshmati replaced them with the last positive value Excel had spit out.</a></label><br><a href="https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/910/159/815/747/746/original/1a1bc51a6c5cb700.jpg" rel="external">https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/910/159/815/747/746/original/1a1bc51a6c5cb700.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: retractionwatch.com</div><h5><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/">No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper</a></h5><div> from <span>Frederik Joelving</span></div></header><div>Almas Heshmati Last year, a new study on green innovations and patents in 27 countries left one reader slack-jawed. The findings were no surprise. What was baffling was how the authors, two profess…</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 15:27:03 JST jonny (good kind)
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1. The student wrote a polite email to the paper’s first author, Almas Heshmati, a professor of economics at Jönköping University in Sweden, asking how he dealt with the missing data. In email correspondence seen by Retraction Watch and a follow-up Zoom call, Heshmati told the student he had used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data. He had marked anywhere from two to four observations before or after the missing values and dragged the selected cells down or up, depending on the case. The program then filled in the blanks. If the new numbers turned negative, Heshmati replaced them with the last positive value Excel had spit out.
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  No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
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  Almas Heshmati Last year, a new study on green innovations and patents in 27 countries left one reader slack-jawed. The findings were no surprise. What was baffling was how the authors, two profess…

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