Quentin André

Quentin André Quentin André<br>Assistant Professor of Marketing

I host it on my personal website: quentinandre.net.

A few example of "open science" posts:
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I don't know what counts as "open science", but I've written a bit about things like interpreting effect sizes and p-values, ensuring reproducibility...

Like with Ego Depletion and Stereotype Threat, Construal Level Theory has, following failures to replicate, been "motte-and-bailey"-ed to more modest claims. In the meantime, many scientists have wasted time and effort on it, rather than collecting interesting facts about human behavior.

Take Construal Level Theory: The idea that different instantiations of distance (physical, social, temporal, perceptual...) are all psychologically related (Liberman and Trope 2008).

This Big Beautiful Idea was formulated on little data... but hundreds of studies quickly "confirmed" it!

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Very interesting post, which largely aligns with my views on theory.

I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.

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More from HBS' Amended Complaint. They claim to have evidence that Gino backdated a fabricated file to exonerate herself.

Key claims from HBS

Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?

HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.

Looks like the "Tariff" button is back on the resolute desk.

Super interesting thread. A stark reminder that any metric of "variance explained" is basically uninterpretable without contextualizing (i) the magnitude and variability of the treatment and (ii) the "baseline" variability of the outcome.

I'll believe the Gen AI hype when a LLM can write a 10 page report without using the "This isn't just X: It's Y" structure 8673 times.

This isn't just annoying, it's aggravating.

Of course academics should not sue others for pointing out their faulty (*cough*) work.

But this is a bit like saying that mafiosi should not threaten witnesses. Doing that follows from being a mafioso, just as suing people who point out your fraud is part of the kind of person who commits fraud.

Flip the Pyramid - South Park | South Park Studios US In the midst of the gluten crisis, Cartman calls the USDA with a crucial piece of information.

If you haven't seen this... southpark.cc.com/video-clips/...

Francesca Gino doesn't do fraud.

She just has a lot of fraud happening to her.

(shamelessly stolen from a friend).

From the start, I have said that I did not commit any academic misconduct… | Francesca Gino From the start, I have said that I did not commit any academic misconduct and I want to reconfirm that statement.  And from the very start, Harvard has blocked me from defending myself publicly.  Firs...

Francesca Gino: "I am deeply sad and disappointed that the University has concluded as it has. But now that this process is over, I am free to show why its conclusion is so clearly wrong. I will continue the fight and do everything in my power to right this wrong." www.linkedin.com/posts/france...

A spotted towhee looking skeptical.

A gray catbird looking skeptical.

Two very skeptical birds on my hike today.

Dear colleagues teaching methods classes,

Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.

Thank you!

it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am

Dear colleagues teaching methods classes,

Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.

Thank you!

Data Colada has submitted a motion for sanction against Francesca Gino and her former lawyer team.

I hope the court rules in their favor. It will be a powerful message that sleuths can expose fake research without fearing legal consequences.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

quentinandre.net/publication/... A result suggesting that loss aversion can disappear or reverse is actually explained by a lack of measurement invariance across conditions (loss aversion parameters calculated on different regions of the gain/loss domain).

I'm so sorry Margaret. Your love for him shone through your posts, and it's clear he had a wonderful life.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

Bill Ackman has a humiliation kink.

There's no other explanation that makes sense.

A counterargument (particularly if weak evidence against the null) is: "If the deck is stacked against you and you still see an effect, it might be a false positive."

Think "the computer screen was actually disconnected during the experiment". If you see an effect, definitely false pos!

As a hairdresser, you can only buy food from a restaurant if the employees are getting their haircuts at your salon?

That's right. You will only buy things from other companies unless they buy an equivalent amount of stuff from you.

Does this sound like a desirable goal? Of course not! You want to be free to buy the things you need. If you buy them, it's for a reason. Trade is good!

To do your job, you need to buy things from other companies (e.g. Office products from Microsoft, website hosting from GoDaddy). These are your "imports".

If you want "balanced trade", you have to stop buying the things you need... unless they start buying your SEO services.