Comments on: Raindrops keep falling on my superfluous apologies https://sorrywatch.com/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-superfluous-apologies/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:41:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: snarly https://sorrywatch.com/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-superfluous-apologies/#comment-219116 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:41:13 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10387#comment-219116 Post author here: A reader emailed us that one of the authors of these studies on superfluous apologies, Alison Wood Brooks, has been accused — in a piece by Daniel Engber in the January 2025 issue of The Atlantic (published online, in November 2024, with the title “The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger”) — of scientific misconduct. As far as we can tell, no one has challenged the data or research methods of the work we discuss in this post. But the evidence presented in the Atlantic piece about other papers by Woods is pretty damning. Engber further discusses the sheer number of business-school profs publishing clever, sexy, media-friendly, unsubstantiated or outright falsified studies and gaining fat speaking fees and book deals in the process. It’s a depressing, demoralizing piece. I think I, Snarly, will be more wary in the future when covering the work of business-school professors, as opposed to psychology and linguistics folks who focus on apology.

]]> By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-superfluous-apologies/#comment-216554 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:54:01 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10387#comment-216554 Ugh! This is… upsetting, because the reflexive apology is very me. Trying to be empathetic and well-liked? Yep. Actually appearing less powerful? Probably also yep.

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