#Statcheck: a data-fakery algorithm that flagged 50,000 articles
▻https://boingboing.net/2016/11/14/statcheck-a-data-fakery-algor.html
But this raises an important question: will statcheck work against researchers whose fakes are specifically designed to beat it? Recent history is littered with promising data-analysis techniques that worked when they looked backwards over what had been done before they were invented, and became much less effective once people who wanted to fake out the algorithm were able to respond. Think of how Google’s Pagerank did an amazing job of finding the latent relevance-structures in the links that formed the web, only to be swamped in linkfarms and more sophisticated techniques designed to exploit Pagerank’s weaknesses.
Since then, we’ve had the #Wall\Street hacking of the bond rating agencies, which allowed them to package high-risk subprime debt as AAA low-risk bonds; not to mention petty scams like the Kindle Unlimited fraud.
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