Posted On: Saturday - April 27th 2024 2:08PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity University Humor
This is not The Babylon Bee. It's not Not the Bee either (a site I will peruse more, BTW).
This is where the truly elite thinkers of our age are trained, eventually going on to high positions to make major economic decisions for the whole world that are really, really stupid.
I don't know. Business School? Besides Accounting, the first month and a half of Economics, and perhaps some Business Law, business schools are more University fluff, good places for students who need the extra time to party at the frat house, throw some disk on the quad, and then have something that looks good on the office wall later at the Dad's car dealership.
Michael Scott, no small figure in the wide world of the northeastern Pennsylvania paper sales industry, has lectured before about the worthlessness of Business School.... and books, too.
This may have been a TED talk, but I'm not sure:
Yet there are various branches of the field of Business, one of them being research into honesty, no lie, honesty, at Harvard's School of Business. Though probably seen with disdain and held in much ill repute by the rest of the faculty simply due to the nature of her research, Professor Francesca Gino has been a leader in this field.
Just give me some tenderness, beneath that honesty...*
What is honesty? What characteristics make one an honest person? What are the 12 facets of honesty? Does honesty come naturally, or is it more trouble to be honest and a lot easier to lie? Honestly, there's a lot to this budding field.
The problem is that Professor Gino has been cheating like hell with the data in her research papers on honesty. From the SCIENCE!!.org website (as related by The Western Journal and brought to Peak Stupidity's attention by The GateWay Pundit) we learn Honesty researcher committed research misconduct, according to newly unsealed Harvard report. There's a lot of time that has been put into this, with a 1,300 page report by the HBS and a $25 million lawsuit by the Professor back at em.
Some sleuthing bloggers figured something was amiss in 4 of the Honestly Professor's papers:
Three of the papers were retracted last year, with retraction notices saying HBS’s investigation—which at that time remained confidential—had found “discrepancies” between the published data and those held in Gino’s records. The fourth, a 2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, had already been retracted in 2021 after the Data Colada bloggers found evidence of fraud in separate data contributed by Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely.So, she didn't like the data she got and put more data that fit the already-written Conclusion into the paper. What does the remind me of...? Anyone, anyone, ... Climate ... anyone, anyone, Bueller... Alarm-something, anyone...?
The HBS report reveals that Gino offered two explanations for those discrepancies: that she, or her research assistants, may have made errors in working with the data—or that someone else tampered with the data for malicious reasons. Gino pointed to a particular collaborator—whose name is redacted in the report but who was a co-author on the 2012 paper—as having had both means and motive to sabotage her, saying this author had access to her data files and the software used to gather data, and that she was angry with Gino ...Peak Stupidity was able to get a peak at that report and we noted an error in the redaction process. Instead of solid black, the redaction was accidentally done with yellow highlighter, you know, by an intern:
"The dog ate my honesty data. Honestly!" It's hard to get away with this anymore. We are in the digital age. All the numbers were on Professor Gino's computer. That's why you hire lawyers.
In his statement, Gino’s lawyer said, “Harvard found no evidence that Prof. Gino modified data.” Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard alleges that the investigation was “motivated by gender” and that she was treated more harshly than male colleagues.... not to mention feline "colleagues". Allegedly, he was only on the computer to scope out new places to hunt, sleep, and pee on the corners of houses using Google-Earth. Who knows, really?
What was he angry about, one wonders, something about her moving the furniture around? (They HATE that!)
Now, the real paradox comes in here. If Professor Gino was such an expert on honesty, wouldn't she necessarily be an expert on the converse, dishonesty? If she was that solid in her knowledge of dishonesty, how did she not get away with this? Then too, if she's dishonest, maybe she doesn't know as much about honestly or dishonesty after all, so ... does not compute... smoke... my circuits are burning... open the pod bay doors, Wheezy, this is the Big One!
* Who ya' gonna listen to, Billy Joel or Paul Simon?
Comments:
Moderator
Monday - April 29th 2024 6:39PM MST
PS: Yeah, I noted that part, J1234. Now, if we had our old-timey non-Anarcho-Tyrannic legal system, it would be obvious that even had she been picked on more as a woman, that doesn't change that she was guilty of what she's been accused of.
J1234
Monday - April 29th 2024 5:17PM MST
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Hi, everyone.
The article said: "Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard alleges that the investigation was 'motivated by gender' and that she was treated more harshly than male colleagues."
A great example of the best use and purpose for wokeness and its offshoots: Social camouflage for personal misdeeds and the redirection of scrutiny away from one's self.
Hi, everyone.
The article said: "Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard alleges that the investigation was 'motivated by gender' and that she was treated more harshly than male colleagues."
A great example of the best use and purpose for wokeness and its offshoots: Social camouflage for personal misdeeds and the redirection of scrutiny away from one's self.
Old Soldier
Monday - April 29th 2024 11:24AM MST
PS
Lie, cheat, steal - the 3 guaranteed hallmarks of Democrats. EVERY TIME!!!
Lie, cheat, steal - the 3 guaranteed hallmarks of Democrats. EVERY TIME!!!
Adam Smith
Monday - April 29th 2024 7:26AM MST
PS: Good morning, Mr. Alarmist!
(Or, well, I guess it's afternoon for you...)
Seven savage Jews that won't leave a scrap on your bones...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eO4zuEUlk&t=61s
(Pretty sure they wouldn't air something like that today.)
As far as I know, Morgan & Morgan has offices in all 50 states and John Morgan is rumored to have a net worth upwards of half a billion dollar bucks. They play ads on the radio here all the time.
Business must be a boomin'...
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(Or, well, I guess it's afternoon for you...)
Seven savage Jews that won't leave a scrap on your bones...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eO4zuEUlk&t=61s
(Pretty sure they wouldn't air something like that today.)
As far as I know, Morgan & Morgan has offices in all 50 states and John Morgan is rumored to have a net worth upwards of half a billion dollar bucks. They play ads on the radio here all the time.
Business must be a boomin'...
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The Alarmist
Monday - April 29th 2024 1:58AM MST
PS
Hi Mr. Smith.
How about Archie Bunker's lawyers, who he described as "seven savage Jews who won't leave any meat on your bones" ?
Morgan & Morgan used to be a Florida institution, but I heard them advertising in Georgia while passing through Atlanta, so business must be booming.
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Hi Mr. Smith.
How about Archie Bunker's lawyers, who he described as "seven savage Jews who won't leave any meat on your bones" ?
Morgan & Morgan used to be a Florida institution, but I heard them advertising in Georgia while passing through Atlanta, so business must be booming.
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Adam Smith
Sunday - April 28th 2024 2:17PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Alarmist!
I read somewhere that Leah McGhee hired an attorney to expunge the suspension from Christian's record.
(It was in the original article that Achmed used for his post, among other places.)
Maybe she should call John Morgan?
Maybe she should call you?
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I read somewhere that Leah McGhee hired an attorney to expunge the suspension from Christian's record.
(It was in the original article that Achmed used for his post, among other places.)
Maybe she should call John Morgan?
Maybe she should call you?
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The Alarmist
Sunday - April 28th 2024 12:44PM MST
PS
I’d love to litigate that kid’s case, because the school has commited a tort that could ruin his life, therefore worth at least few million of damages in front of a jury of real Americans. Maybe not an Alex Jobes type of settlement, but a few bucks nonetheless.
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I’d love to litigate that kid’s case, because the school has commited a tort that could ruin his life, therefore worth at least few million of damages in front of a jury of real Americans. Maybe not an Alex Jobes type of settlement, but a few bucks nonetheless.
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Moderator
Sunday - April 28th 2024 11:49AM MST
PS: O/T, VDare just published a post by John Derbyshire on that same story about the HS kid in N. Carolina. getting suspended for using the legal term "illegal alien" in class. I know he gets these posts off his most recent "Radio Derb" (for which I wait for the transcript rather than listening). I got the story off the usual, Gateway Pundit, though I didn't call them out this time.
Anyway, The Derb agrees here, https://vdare.com/posts/white-teenager-said-illegal-alien-suspended-from-school-for-three-days-on-a-charge-of-racism
"One of my pet peeves is all the frowning and censoring at the phrase "illegal alien." It's a perfectly good descriptor, used in federal legislation. Patriotic Americans should use it loud and clear at every opportunity." Per the comments written yesterday under our post by Adam Smith, it is often UNused in legislation, but still, that's a perfectly valid term, and no, it doesn't disparage Guatemalans as creatures from outer space. Jean Claude Junkers may feel otherwise...
Anyway, The Derb agrees here, https://vdare.com/posts/white-teenager-said-illegal-alien-suspended-from-school-for-three-days-on-a-charge-of-racism
"One of my pet peeves is all the frowning and censoring at the phrase "illegal alien." It's a perfectly good descriptor, used in federal legislation. Patriotic Americans should use it loud and clear at every opportunity." Per the comments written yesterday under our post by Adam Smith, it is often UNused in legislation, but still, that's a perfectly valid term, and no, it doesn't disparage Guatemalans as creatures from outer space. Jean Claude Junkers may feel otherwise...
MBlanc46
Sunday - April 28th 2024 9:17AM MST
PS A Harvard professorship is a pretty cushy gig. There’s beaucoups of competition for one Where the competition is stiff, there are always some folks who will do anything—including lie, cheat, and steal—to get a leg up. Academia is a cesspit of lunacy and corruption. Throw in quotas for Negroes and women. What we’ve seen recently is just the tip of the lying and cheating iceberg.
Moderator
Sunday - April 28th 2024 9:16AM MST
PS: Last time I knew much French, Alarmist, was in 9th or 10th grade. Unfortunately, because the translation had a few other minor grammar errors, I couldn't be sure of this one:
"I saw and heard and listened [from/to] the other planets leaders." That's how the on-screen translation read.
Was "planets", in it's possessive form - the French version thereof - supposed to be plural or not. He does note that they are watching from afar. Was the from 8,000 kilometers or 8,000 parsecs? National Enquiring minds want to know.
It's odd to say "planet's" rather than "world's" to begin with, but I don't know how far out there this guy is. The comments are in French too - go figure - so I can't get too far.
This Junker ought to get together with George Soros. They could make wonderful music together, 2 real pieces of ... uhhh, work.
"I saw and heard and listened [from/to] the other planets leaders." That's how the on-screen translation read.
Was "planets", in it's possessive form - the French version thereof - supposed to be plural or not. He does note that they are watching from afar. Was the from 8,000 kilometers or 8,000 parsecs? National Enquiring minds want to know.
It's odd to say "planet's" rather than "world's" to begin with, but I don't know how far out there this guy is. The comments are in French too - go figure - so I can't get too far.
This Junker ought to get together with George Soros. They could make wonderful music together, 2 real pieces of ... uhhh, work.
The Alarmist
Saturday - April 27th 2024 2:36PM MST
PS
A former President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker once said the politico’s quiet part out loud when he famously said, “When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”
He also once said, with regard to democracy in Europe, “I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.”
I’d like to think these are merely examples of European values, but these seem to be universal political values inherent in “leaders” the world over.
BTW, Juncker once famously stated that he discussed Brexit with leaders of other planets (J'ai vu et entendu et écouté plusieurs des dirigeants d'autres planètes), so perhaps these really are universal political values:
https://youtu.be/J44uxw7Ml1I
A former President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker once said the politico’s quiet part out loud when he famously said, “When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”
He also once said, with regard to democracy in Europe, “I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.”
I’d like to think these are merely examples of European values, but these seem to be universal political values inherent in “leaders” the world over.
BTW, Juncker once famously stated that he discussed Brexit with leaders of other planets (J'ai vu et entendu et écouté plusieurs des dirigeants d'autres planètes), so perhaps these really are universal political values:
https://youtu.be/J44uxw7Ml1I
seen this court-ruling about separation? - -
https://x.com/FamedCelebrity/status/1785240928724382050