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It's good that these issues finally get a bit more attention, however I fear that we're still only seeing the tip of the iceberg. There are so many fields of sc
by hannob 10y ago
It's good that these issues finally get a bit more attention, however I fear that we're still only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
There are so many fields of science that don't care about replication at all, work with far too low numbers of subjects and don't bother about issues like publication bias. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the majority of stuff that's done at university is cargo cult science.
And don't get illuded about your own field: Pretty much all of this is also true for computer science when it comes to quantitative research. How often have I seen studies like "we have tested this with 10 users which we divided in two groups".
- aetherson 10y agoThat's interesting. What kind of computer science research is done with control/experimental groups of users? I haven't paid any attention to academic computer science in, well, decades, but I kind of assumed it was all "we got this algorithm to do this thing," like math, with not much of a human element.