A Twitter thread weaving a story about racism in science got 44,000 likes. After people noticed incongruencies in the story, the author acknowledged to me he had copied from reddit. Then he deleted his reply, hid mine, then locked and deleted his account in short order. ...Huh. https://t.co/hbTDhGXSlj
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) September 18, 2022
Thread first reported on rdrama:
https://rdrama.net/post/105564/phdcel-discovers-one-simple-trick-to
Stuart Ritchie and others noticed his wording was suspiciously similar to a prior reddit thread:
https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1571595824672706561
Other details didn't quite seem to add up:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571626850757009408
So I asked him about it all:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571627271470940162
He confirmed he copied the thread, so I said thanks and he liked it. Then I guess he realized what he'd just confirmed, because he unliked, deleted his reply, hid my reply, locked replies to his thread, locked his account, and deleted his whole twitter account renamed himself to firstname-bunchofnumbers and removed his Twitter bio. In that order.
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I'll probably do a proper write-up about it or something, idk. it escalated quickly
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Iβve seen tons of variations of this exact story
over 
the years but this one makes the least sense as Iβd assume heβd have some publications on his CV which would have his real name 
on it.
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yep. the scale of difference in response rate was implausible, the specific remarks he mentioned would have gotten any academic more-or-less executed on the spot, and any serious postdoc would look through his publications. No good way to fake something like that. The whole story just made no sense at all.
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The ur version of this seems to be this 2003 study
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0203hrnews2.aspx which targeted mostly sales and manager 
positions something where 
at least the resumes would be broader (past work 
experience and maybe a bachelors). There 
was also this duck 
duck 
go one when an annon alleged the company discriminated against white 
men https://lulz.com/duckduckgo-hiring-racial-discrimination-73617/ This one has some actual evidence but nothing that couldnt be faked
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Why would they need an entire study to come to the obvious conclusion that people don't want to hire blacks?
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Why did we need the parachute RCT?
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Even older: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02895739
Not the same, but similar actual paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002716206294796
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