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State funding has been falling dramatically. The actual researchers are hurting for money. Grad students are paid a pittance, so rather understandably, most gra
by argonaut 11y ago
State funding has been falling dramatically. The actual researchers are hurting for money. Grad students are paid a pittance, so rather understandably, most grad students want to graduate ASAP. Making your code nice and publishing it does not help you graduate early. It also does not help you get grants or funding.
You could pressure universities / departments to make reproducibility a requirement for graduation, but I don't see why they would follow along, because this is not going to help the university get more funding or publish more papers (prestige).
Now, if organizations and companies were willing to put money behind software reproducibility (maybe some sort of fellowships or million-dollar research grants to labs), then the incentives would be aligned.
- jcrites 11y agoI would like to make it a simple requirement of receiving any public funding. No one is asking for the code to be polished - I would actually rather it was not modified whatsoever from the state in which the research was conducted. The goal is reproducibility and integrity, so I want to see the actual code that was used, not some polished subsequent version. Every publication involving data and code or analysis should publish them to a degree that makes validation possible in at least as detailed a way as portrayed in "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogo ff" (http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04deaa6388b1/publication/566/ http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04dea...)
- argonaut 11y agoYeah, this could also work. But now Mozilla needs to convince the government...