Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who has come under fire for accusations of plagiarism and anti-Semitism, now finds her work more scrutinized after it was revealed that two professors questioned a data method she used in a Stanford paper. 2001 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 papers that helped secure gay tenure at Stanford University, but not all were able to adequately review their merit, according to a publication in The Christopher Brunet Dossier.
In 2002, Michael C. Herron, the 1943 Remsen Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences 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 have debunked the same foundation of Gay’s research.
At a Society for Political Methodology (PolMeth) conference that year, Herron and Shotts presented their research and found inconsistencies in Gay’s article where he concluded that the election of black Americans to Congress negatively affects white political participation and rarely increases political participation among blacks. people.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has faced accusations of plagiarism throughout her academic career. David McGlynn Gay has submitted a correction to his 2001 Stanford article highlighting the effects on voters when they are represented by black Americans in Congress. American Political Science Journal
According to the two professors, Gay’s analysis and extrapolations were based on the statistical practice known as ecological regression (El-R), which Herron and Shotts have spent years showing leads to “logical inconsistencies.”
While Herron and Shotts highlighted the errors of other researchers who used El-R, they noted that their research into how Gay came to her conclusion and the statistics she listed was limited because she refused to share her research with them.
“However, we were unable to examine Gay’s results because she did not disclose her data set to us,” the researchers noted in their 2002 paper.
Herron told The Post on Tuesday that he and Shotts published multiple reports between 2000 and 2004 analyzing how researchers used El-R and the type of results it can produce.
Michael C. Herron serves as the 1943 Remsen Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences 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 request for comment on the inconsistencies highlighted by Herron and Shotts.
Brunet also noted that the 2002 PolMeth program that included Herron and Shotts’ paper was not on the conference website, even though all other programs from 1984 to 2021 were available. PolMeth did not respond to The Post’s request for comment on the missing year.
Gay’s 2001 article is one of two that the Harvard president had recently requested corrections over accusations that he plagiarized many articles during his academic career.
For the 2001 article, Gay noted that she was unable to properly attribute or cite a source for a 1990 article. The educator has been accused of lifting up entire paragraphs without citing while studying for her doctorate at Harvard.
Harvard University has been criticized for the accusations facing its president. David McGlynn
When The Post investigated the allegations, it received a threatening legal letter from the school denying that Gay had committed plagiarism.
Scrutiny of Gay’s career and investigation began when he received backlash for his testimony before the House Education Committee, in which he dodged questions about whether anti-Semitic chants violated the campus code of conduct.
With controversy surrounding Gay, Harvard’s board faces calls from faculty for him to resign, as critics say the Ivy League university’s reputation has taken a “substantial hit” over allegations surrounding his president.
The university did not respond to the Post’s request for comment on the latest allegation Gay faces.
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