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Artificial Deadlines (Part 2): Retrograding Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002)

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This is a followup of the previous post that was discussed on here [0], but with (I think) quite reasonable accusations of fraud. The linear regression across the two sections, with integer-only offsets that heavily influenced only in the direction of a desired outcome, shows quite a clear picture. It's really quite damning.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516199

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