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|Resource Type=Cases
|Title=Selection bias in skull measurements
|Is About=This blog post reports on the findings of a group of anthropologists who discovered that S. J. Gould had been fudging numbers and selecting his samples in a biased manner.
|Important Because=It nicely shows the self-correcting feature of science. In his 1978 paper, Gould accused Morton (a 19th-century intellectual) of racial bias and misconduct. However, Gould himself is later found to have selected his data in a biased manner.
|Important For=Researchers
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|Has Link=http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/06/did_stephen_jay_gould_fudge_hi.html
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|Involves=Stephen Jay Gould
|Has Timepoint=2011
|Has Location=United States
|Has Virtue And Value=Accountability; Honesty
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Bias; Selection bias
|Related To Research Area=LS 08.05 - Evolutionary biology: evolutionary ecology and genetics, co-evolution
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