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Data Colada, a blog launched by several academics focused on research misconduct, validated their findings. After acknowledging various statistical anomalies and inconsistencies in Gino's datasets, Data Colada alerted the Harvard Business School, leading to an extensive investigation that confirmed misconduct across multiple Gino papers. The investigation took nearly a year and discovered that around 28% of survey responses had been edited to fit a desired hypothesis, leading to significant conclusions steeped in potential fraud.