At 2:37 PM -0600 12/19/01, Mike Scoles wrote:
>This seems a bit unfair, given Miller's uncommon example of intellectual
>honesty in admitting to the failures to replicate and retracting the earlier
>claim.
>
>Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think it demonstrates that he was more effective in shaping
>> the behavior of his grad students.

Sorry -- I was not implying that Miller deliberately caused his students to
falsify data.  I was referring to the near-universal natural contingencies
governing the behavior of graduate students when they know what their
mentors expect to find.

This is why replication is so important!

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