Data Colada Flags Fraud in Fifth Francesca Gino Paper, No Forensics Needed
danielrock · x · 2026-11-11
Data Colada's fifth "Data Falsificada" post presents strong evidence of fraud in another paper co-authored by former Harvard professor Francesca Gino — this time without fancy forensics.
- The target is the 2011 paper "Reversing the extraverted leadership advantage" by Adam Grant, Francesca Gino, and David Hofmann, with 900+ Google Scholar citations.
- First author Adam Grant supplied two files: a Gino-authored file containing the published data and an earlier file from a research assistant, and comparing them shows how the data were altered.
- The analysis focuses on Study 2, a 2010 UNC team t-shirt-folding experiment analyzed by Gino.
- In 2023 Data Colada exposed fraud in four Gino papers, which were retracted before Harvard found direct evidence of data tampering and fired her; the authors had long suspected more papers were fabricated.
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