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1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected 4 citation errors: a fabricated '3.6 times more likely' statistic attached to Teresa Amabile's real Progress Principle research; implementation-intentions research misattributed to Roy Baumeister when it is actually Peter Gollwitzer and Paschal Sheeran's work, with an altered effect size (r=.55/90 studies vs the real d=0.65/94 studies), plus an unmentioned major replication controversy affecting Baumeister's ego-depletion theory; a historical-creative-productivity analysis misattributed to Adam Grant when the underlying research is Dean Keith Simonton's 'equal-odds rule' (Grant cites it in Originals but did not conduct the analysis); and a '20-40% of productive time' task-switching statistic misattributed to 'Mark et al., 2008' when it actually originates from Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein's research.

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   Article cited specific researchers and statistics for productivity and creativity research that were either fabricated, misattributed to the wrong researcher, or presented without disclosing a significant subsequent replication controversy.

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   Corrected the Amabile statistic to match the real, verifiable finding; reattributed implementation-intentions research to Gollwitzer and Sheeran with the correct effect size, and added a note on the ego-depletion replication controversy; reattributed the historical-creative-productivity finding to Simonton; reattributed the task-switching statistic to Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein.

   Why: Real researchers were credited with each other's findings, one invented statistic was added, and a significant scientific controversy (ego-depletion's replication failure) was omitted - a mix of fabrication and citation-swapping errors found across this batch of legacy articles.

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1. Correction 29 July 2026

   Emir Baycan: Corrected 4 citation errors: a fabricated '3.6 times more likely' statistic attached to Teresa Amabile's real Progress Principle research; implementation-intentions research misattributed to Roy Baumeister when it is actually Peter Gollwitzer and Paschal Sheeran's work, with an altered effect size (r=.55/90 studies vs the real d=0.65/94 studies), plus an unmentioned major replication controversy affecting Baumeister's ego-depletion theory; a historical-creative-productivity analysis misattributed to Adam Grant when the underlying research is Dean Keith Simonton's 'equal-odds rule' (Grant cites it in Originals but did not conduct the analysis); and a '20-40% of productive time' task-switching statistic misattributed to 'Mark et al., 2008' when it actually originates from Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein's research.

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