Cryptonnesia (forgetting what you’ve read, so you just use someone else’s words)
Lack of understanding of what it is can also cause plagiarism
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Falsification
Manipulation and/or distortion of existing data to create certain results
The moral boundaries are not always clear (questionable research practices or idiocy?)
Cherry picking, data mining, p-hacking, QRPs
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Fabrication
Making up data that did not previously exist
The clearest line, cannot be done accidentally
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Perverse incentives
Publications, which leads to funding and promotion/tenure
Publication bias and file drawer effect
Pressure to publish + publication bias towards significant results + clear, uncomplicated results more likely to be published + tendency to favour **** novel findings + deliberate falsification/fabrication = fraud
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