I didn't realize that ousted University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan co-authored several books with Elizabeth Warren.
Together, they looked at bankruptcy.
How did they work together?
Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook deployed a research methodology that was apparently contrary to the methodology they stated they would use in their National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposal, which financed their research. After they received their funding, they chose to apply “human subject safeguards” by removing identifying information (case number, petitioner name, and a subsequent “identifier” they added) from the raw data files used in the study--over 1,500 bankruptcy records, each one containing over 200 fields of information (such as assets, liabilities, homeownership, marital status, etc.) That change in methodology made their research data, in effect, unverifiable.
They rose high in their fields.
But 2012 isn't looking very good for either.
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