The S.E.C. is investigating whether analysts deceived investors by publishing falsely optimistic research reports to please the corporate clients of their investment firms.
Justine Roberts, founder of Mumsnet, which carried out the survey, said: "Choosing your baby's name is one of the first things new parents do, so in some ways baby name regret is great practice for parenting: you do a lot of hard work and research, try to please several people at once, and end up getting it wrong.
"Choosing your baby's name is one of the first things new parents do, so in some ways baby name regret is great practice for parenting: you do a lot of hard work and research, try to please several people at once, and end up getting it wrong".
This fabricated research was not an isolated incident; Mr. Somerby had also been implicated in other fraudulent research and was out to please his clients regardless of the veracity of his work.
And the conclusions of our latest research aren't likely to please true believers on either side.
I was paid to do equity research for investors, not to please the companies I followed or my firms' investment bankers.
And we might expect the head of the research department to try to please the firm's executives with a department that makes "buy" recommendations rather than "sell" recommendations for the companies the firm underwrites.
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And third, participants might have overstated their willingness-to-pay simply to please the research team, and/or to not "appear poor" among fellow focus group participants.
All participants may have been subject to interviewer and recall bias, with the potential for additional bias resulting from the demand characteristics of the research setting: children's desire to please may sometimes outweigh their desire to be truthful.
