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"You referring to this?
retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/n...

TLDR: professor used Excel's autofill feature for missing values

(I never use that feature because it is so problematic, even for casual work. I can't imagine thinking it would be remotely appropriate for scholarly research)"
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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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