AUTHOR=Pastore Massimiliano , Nucci Massimo , Bobbio Andrea , Lombardi Luigi TITLE=Empirical Scenarios of Fake Data Analysis: The Sample Generation by Replacement (SGR) Approach JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00482 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00482 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Many self-report measures of attitudes, beliefs, personality, and pathology include items whose responses can be easily manipulated or distorted, as an example in order to give a positive impression to others, to obtain financial compensation, to avoid being charged with a crime, to get a job, or else. This fact confronts both researchers and practitioners with the crucial problem of biases yielded by the usage of standard statistical models. The current paper presents three empirical applications to the issue of faking of a recent probabilistic perturbation procedure called Sample Generation by Replacement (SGR; Lombardi and Pastore,