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[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am reminded of this story:

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

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.

Of course that guy didn't need fancy autofill to act like an idiot, he used good old fashion autofill.

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026

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