Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who has come under fire for accusations of plagiarism and antisemitism, is now seeing her work under further scrutiny after it was revealed two professors questioned the data methods she used in a 2001 Stanford paper that often resulted in “logical inconsistencies” — and she refused to share her research with them.
The 2001 study, titled “The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation,” was one of four peer-reviewed articles that helped get Gay tenure at Stanford University, but its merits could not be properly reviewed by everyone, according to a post on the Dossier by Christopher Brunet .
In 2002, Michael C. Herron, the Remsen 1943 professor of quantitative social science at Dartmouth, and Kenneth W. Shotts, the David S. and Ann M. Barlow professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, claimed to deny that. the basis of Gay research.
At the Society for Political Methodology (PolMeth) conference that year, Herron and Shotts presented their research, finding inconsistencies in Gay’s paper in which he concluded that the election of black Americans to Congress negatively affected white political engagement and rarely increased political engagement. among blacks. many people.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has faced allegations of plagiarism throughout her academic career. David McGlynn Gay has filed a correction to his 2001 Stanford paper highlighting the effect on voters of being represented by black Americans in Congress. American Political Science Review
According to the two professors, Gay’s analysis and extrapolation is based on a statistical practice known as ecological regression (El-R), which Herron and Shotts have proven over the years to lead to “logical inconsistencies.”
Although Herron and Shotts highlighted errors by other researchers using the El-R, they noted that their investigation into how Gay reached his conclusions and the statistics he listed was limited because he refused to share his research with them.
“We were, however, unable to examine Gay’s results because he would not release his data set to us,” the researchers said in their 2002 paper.
Herron told The Post Tuesday that he and Shotts had published several reports between 2000 and 2004 looking at how researchers used El-R and what kind of results it could produce.
Michael C. Herron served as the 1943 Remsen professor of quantitative social science at Dartmouth. Dartmouth Kenneth W. Shotts is the David S. and Ann M. Barlow professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford
Gay and Stanford did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment on the inconsistencies highlighted by Herron and Shotts.
Brunet also noted that the PolMeth 2002 program that included the Herron and Shotts papers is missing from the conference website — although all other programs from 1984 to 2021 are available. PolMeth did not respond to The Post’s request for comment on the missing year.
Gay’s 2001 paper was one of two Harvard presidents recently requested corrections following allegations that he plagiarized numerous papers during his academic career.
For the 2001 paper, Gay stated that he failed to properly attribute and cite sources from the 1990 paper. The educator has been accused of lifting entire paragraphs without providing a citation while studying for his doctorate at Harvard.
Harvard University has come under fire over the allegations facing its president. David McGlynn
When The Post looked into the allegations, it received a threatening legal letter from the school denying Gay engaged in any plagiarism.
Scrutiny of Gay’s career and research began when he received backlash for his testimony before the House Education Committee, where he dodged questions about whether antisemitic chants violated the campus code of conduct.
With the controversy surrounding Gay, Harvard’s governing board is facing calls from faculty to resign as critics say the Ivy League university’s reputation has taken a “major blow” over allegations surrounding its president.
The university did not respond to The Post’s request for comment on the latest allegations facing Gay.
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