Comment by jrockway
14 years ago
Yeah, I remember a number of labs where I didn't get the data that was expected and had to do the experiment again. Knowing the expected result, producing excellent data was easy; instead of a painstaking data-collection process, I outsourced that to a "function" with "noise". Hey look, r=0.999!
I understand this is the same process by which the top quark was discovered.
Hey look, r=0.999!
I had to grade physics labs one semester -- this was always an instant tell that students were making shit up. :)
I wish I'd even once had students who understood the experiment well enough to fabricate data.
always an instant tell that students were making shit up
Including the correlation coefficient!