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It's definitely a "Gerry Rafferty" kind of night.
Wind, rain, Scottish night here in north Texas. Reminds me of north Yorkshire, specifically Pateley Bridge and River Nidd. Pitch black, drizzly, somewhat uncomfortable, skies covered with stars and me feeling -- literally feeling -- my way along the river between Summerbridge and Pateley Bridge.
Wow, what memories. Link here.
The saxophone really makes the song.
When I was "deployed" to Menwith Hill Station, Yorkshire, England, some twenty years ago, this is where I often stayed. Heaven on earth many memories. Barnhill HG3 5DH was the postal code.
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US Equity Markets
One word: amazing.
Two words: animal spirits.
Six words: we're not in Kansas any more.
Broadcom (AVGO): up 40.72% in five days. NVDA up 163.58% in one year. And their gains are holding after hours tonight.
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Pardons
I see a headline that Trump would consider a pardon for the NYC mayor. I hope that happens, if necessary. It's probably a bridge too far for the president (Biden) but it would be appropriate -- if that's the right word -- for Trump to pardon the mayor. Frankly I'm getting tired of the press seemingly more concerned with peccadillos than with covering real problems. Other than making some folks feel good, did the Hunter (Biden) outcome really amount to anything to anyone? There's a reason Kash Patel wants to shut down the Hoover Building.
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My Alma Mater: USC
You can go your own way.
Wow, those were the good old days.
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Vikings Win Tonight.
NFC: Vikings, Lions, and Eagles atop the NFC. Wow. This is almost like the good ol' days.
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The Atlantic
Current issue. January, 2025.
"The Fraudulent Science of Success" by Daniel Engber,a senior editor at The Atlantic.
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research -- and the credibility of an entire field.
Remember these names: Francesca Gina, Juliana Schroeder, and Alison Wood Brooks.
The article will probably be behind a paywall.
For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023. Schroeder teaches management and psychology at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. One of her colleagues—a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino—had just been accused of academic fraud. The authors of the blog post, a small team of business-school researchers, had found discrepancies in four of Gino’s published papers, and they suggested that the scandal was much larger. “We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data,” the blog post said. “Perhaps dozens.”
The story was soon picked up by the mainstream press. Reporters reveled in the irony that Gino, who had made her name as an expert on the psychology of breaking rules, may herself have broken them. (“Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings,” a New York Times headline read.) Harvard Business School had quietly placed Gino on administrative leave just before the blog post appeared. The school had conducted its own investigation; its nearly 1,300-page internal report, which was made public only in the course of related legal proceedings, concluded that Gino “committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly” in the four papers. (Gino has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.)
Schroeder’s interest in the scandal was more personal. Gino was one of her most consistent and important research partners. Their names appear together on seven peer-reviewed articles, as well as 26 conference talks. If Gino were indeed a serial cheat, then all of that shared work—and a large swath of Schroeder’s CV—was now at risk. When a senior academic is accused of fraud, the reputations of her honest, less established colleagues may get dragged down too. “Just think how horrible it is,” Katy Milkman, another of Gino’s research partners and a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, told me. “It could ruin your life.”
Googling will provide more background.
The wiki entry on Juliana Schroeder is interesting for what is not being reported.
Interestingly enough, there is no wiki entry for Alison Wood Brooks, who is apparently still at Harvard.
