I'm interested in the phenomenon whereby researchers find it more acceptable to omit results from a report (error of omission), or fail to publish a null result, than to make up data (error of commission). Is there an accepted term for this?
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Replying to @deevybee
Isn't it just motivated reasoning? It is easier to rationalise that some "real" data are not relevant to a report (something wrong with data, design suboptimal, etc) than to rationalise that made up data ARE relevant. To be fair, those decisions have to be made.
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Replying to @richarddmorey
That doesn't get it. I am specifically interested in the distinction between active vs passive forms of wrongdoing, and how they are perceived differently in moral terms
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Replying to @deevybee @richarddmorey
Like negligent vs intentional torts in common law?
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Replying to @deevybee @richarddmorey
Might be useful to think about mens rea then (nothing to do with butts, I promise
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Replying to @o_guest @richarddmorey
I have lawyer relatives but hadn’t occurred to me to look at it this way. Thanks!
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Replying to @deevybee @richarddmorey
I'm really into law as a lay person, as a comp modeller. I like how it's a (semi) formal system for something outside science. It's like bizzaro comp modelling, or you can say comp modelling is like bizarro law-making.
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Concepts that are important/useful to talk about the world (scientific or otherwise) have already been given cool names within legalese & often are more accessible than same/similar phrases we have in formal modelling. Like "spirit vs letter of the law", a great concept/phrase!
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Or the idea/concept that even though we have laws (= formalisms) we still need to discuss things on a case-by-case basis (trials in law, discussion in science and life generally); the idea that laws/formalisms can be wrong even if super formal/mathematical; and more.
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The idea that the people enforcing the laws (cops) could be awful while the laws could be OK.
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