- Plagiarized abstracts and conclusions from several references nearly word-for-word, including Bobo's work (Bobo is the other bad guy involved in RF's witchhunt)
- Changed coefficient magnitudes and signs (from positive to negative) to report that W hite turnout decreased in districts with B lack reps to accuse them of ra cism and argue in favor of majority-minority districts
- Lost hundreds of observations due to a variance estimator that produced negative values, so observations were deleted when computing regression weights as the software couldn't take square roots of negative numbers. Impossible for her not to notice estimates were very different from OLS ones and massive sample size reduction
- Changed EI Stage 1 turnout and vote estimates while writing on her dissertation, and later again while writing the APSR article
- Removed all Illinois precincts from her analyses between dissertation version and APSR as the results were inconvenient to her pet theories (for 2 B lack reps they showed W hite turnout had increased)
- Her hypotheses are very similar to Enos' hence the incentive to halt the investigation
Claudine Gay's misconduct -- some of the concrete things she did
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Her dissertation is semi-illiterate. Read it. She writes 'gage' instead of gauge, 'insure' instead of ensure, uses 'turnout' as a verb, as in "they are more likely to turnout." You can almost tell when a sentence is plagiarized. If it's correct and well-written it's probably stolen from some scholar's work.