The interrogation tactics themselves are designed to both constrain and falsify the information suspects use to analyze their situations.
Mason and another oil worker provided sworn statements in a 2003 lawsuit that rig supervisors "routinely falsified reports to show equipment designed to prevent blowouts was passing state-mandated performance tests," reported the Wall Street Journal in 2005.
During their depositions, the prosecutors and court clerk acknowledged that procedures followed in the Garcia case — arraignment without a judge, falsified court record — were standard practice for the Bantam courthouse, designed to speed processing of a crowded docket.
The Wason task was originally designed to highlight the tendency of people to search for confirmatory evidence and ignore potentially falsifying evidence.
The Environmental Protection Agency charged last week that Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc. of Oakland, Calif., falsified data about the proposed field testing of a genetically engineered microbe designed to reduce frost damage to plants.
It is used to falsify the hypothesis that the bridge was behaving as designed when subjected to ambient vibration inputs, before opening to the traffic.
This condition is used to falsify the non-robust controllers.
"Staff are encouraged to falsify statistics.
It was even loath to falsify election returns.
But the campaign boosted incentives to falsify results.
