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New page: '''Academic dishonesty''' is academic misconduct which violates the principles of academic integrity. For students, this primarily means cheating on a test - pretending you've learned ...
'''Academic dishonesty''' is academic misconduct which violates the principles of [[academic integrity]]. For students, this primarily means cheating on a test - pretending you've learned more than you really have. For researchers, this generally refers to [[intellectual dishonesty]], such as knowingly presenting an unsound argument in favor of a proposition for ideological reasons.
Scientists unknowing drift academic dishonesty by incorrectly assuming that a small sample represents the whole (see [[statistical sampling]]). Often the pressures of the "[[publish or perish]]" syndrome drive scientists to such deliberate acts as:
* faking research to support a theory
* discarding data which contradict a theory
* [[character assassination]] of scientists who advance competing theories
Scientists unknowing drift academic dishonesty by incorrectly assuming that a small sample represents the whole (see [[statistical sampling]]). Often the pressures of the "[[publish or perish]]" syndrome drive scientists to such deliberate acts as:
* faking research to support a theory
* discarding data which contradict a theory
* [[character assassination]] of scientists who advance competing theories