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I wonder if paying grad students to write a more full paper that includes all the steps and the negative results would help. It wouldn't be something that is p
by shepardrtc 10y ago
I wonder if paying grad students to write a more full paper that includes all the steps and the negative results would help. It wouldn't be something that is published right away, and perhaps it wouldn't need to be published. Maybe it would simply be a follow-up to the original paper. It would be a "proof" of sorts, provided by the authors. There are many students out there that would happily do this, I think. I know so many that clamor for even the slightest bit of work in their departments. I think it would also be beneficial to their future, teaching them about reproducibility and impressing upon them to continue this practice down the road. The current climate of publish-or-perish isn't going away anytime soon, and neither are the clean, pretty papers with only positive results. And that's fine. Those are the quick highlights. But the full studies still need to be out there, and I think this could potentially be a way to approach that necessity.