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They should be replicable despite a lot of that, if they aren't then then the original study is garbage.
by flukus 8y ago
They should be replicable despite a lot of that, if they aren't then then the original study is garbage.
- Alex3917 8y agoGetting the same result doesn’t mean a study is replicable or a result is reproduceable. If you don’t use the same methodology it’s meaningless.
- irq11 8y agoNo. Nobody ever reproduces papers exactly, because you can’t. There are too many variables, and even though you try to control as many as possible, you can still be blindsided by the random variate that you didn’t anticipate. Scientific results that are robust to random variation are the important ones. The ones that can only be reproduced exactly as specified are most likely to be “meaningless”.