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Academic Integrity and the God of Data

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“In God we trust, all others must bring data.” Commonly attributed to the statistician William Deming [1], this remark implores us to prove our work beyond relying on trust, opinion, and personal assurance. The way to do so, it would seem, is with data. But what if the data we rely on is wrong, misleading, or misinterpreted?

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    The earliest print reference to this saying, referring to it as a ‘well-recognised cliché’, comes not from Deming but from a 1978 Congressional hearing into passive smoking, where it was used to argue against proposals to limit smoking in public places, as evidence of harm was lacking.

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  1. Park Clinic Orthopaedics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Nathan White

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  1. OrthoSport Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Brian M. Devitt

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Mustafa Karahan

  3. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre – FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Braga, Portugal

    João Espregueira-Mendes

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White, N. (2020). Academic Integrity and the God of Data. In: Devitt, B., Karahan, M., Espregueira-Mendes, J. (eds) The Future of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28976-8_11

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