Fabrication
Fabrication is the intentional act of making up data or results and recording or reporting them.
Examples of fabrication1
- In the social sciences, a researcher/interviewer completing a questionnaire for a fictitious subject that was never interviewed.
- In the biological sciences, the creation of a data set for an experiment that was never actually conducted.
- The practice of adding fictitious data to a real data set collected during an actual experiment for the purpose of providing additional statistical validity.
- In clinical research the insertion of a clinical note into the research record to indicate compliance with an element of the protocol.