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Kate Laskowski
I'm starting the year off with something I didn't expect to ever do: I'm retracting a paper. I recently discovered major problems in the raw data associated with it and so the results shouldn't be trusted.
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
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I collaborated on this paper with Jonathan Pruitt & PO Montiglio. We were testing predictions from the social niche specialization hypothesis in social spiders. 2/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
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The paper argued that we found support that repeated social interactions increased behavioral variation and had positive effects on individual and group success. This was so cool and I was so excited about these results! 3/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
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However, I recently fielded a question from a colleague about the available data. There were an unexpected number of duplicate values that I had never previously noticed. Unfortunately these problems spanned colonies, treatments and time points 4/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
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Making it biologically impossible to explain and Jonathan, who collected the data, couldn't figure out how these patterns emerged either, meaning we couldn't just somehow correct it. 5/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
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The prudent thing was then to try to remove the corrupted data. But in this much reduced dataset, we could no longer find support for our original results. 6/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @KateLaskowski
The main point is therefore we can no longer stand behind these results. I'm deeply sorry (& embarassed) I didn't catch these problems when I recieved the data for analysis. 7/
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @DanielBolnick
Finally some of my sincerest thanks to at Am Nat for being so absolutely supportive during this whole process 8/8
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Graham Coop 17. sij
Sorry to hear this Kate, that sucks. But a big thank you for correcting the record!
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
Thanks Graham. Yeah it is not awesome, especially because this was one of my favorite papers in one of my favorite journals 😭
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Christos Ioannou 17. sij
Nice one, . Are the other papers based on data "collected in the laboratory of the third author" being checked? My PhD student has a couple of papers submitted that heavily cite their work.
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Kate Laskowski 17. sij
Yes, I am going through all my papers on this topic and should have more information on that front soon.
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