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Ranga P. Dias (US), a physicist at the University of Rochester, was in 2024 found by an investigatory committee to have committed "research misconduct" related to his work on alleged superconducting materials. [262] [263] A 2023 report in Science noted that at least 21% of Dias's 2013 doctoral thesis had been copied from uncredited sources. [264]
Credit - Illustration by Lorenzo Gritti for TIME. A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
Past life regression. Past life regression (PLR), Past life therapy (PLT), regression or memory regression is a method that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations. [ 1][ 2] The practice is widely considered discredited and unscientific by medical practitioners, and experts generally regard ...
A study on spear phishing susceptibility among different age groups found that 43% of youth aged 18–25 and 58% of older users clicked on simulated phishing links in daily emails over 21 days. Older women had the highest susceptibility, while susceptibility in young users declined over the study, but remained stable in older users. [22]
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Research. Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan. Social research methodologies can be classified as quantitative and qualitative. [ 1] Quantitative designs approach social phenomena through quantifiable evidence, and often rely on statistical analyses of many cases (or across intentionally ...
Research. In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person in public spaces. Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography .