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If people don't publish failures to replicate, how do you know how frequently replication failures become known in the community?
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
If people don't publish failures to replicate, how do you know how frequently replication failures become known in the community?
- jf- 8y agoThe same way you know that you walked out of your front door this morning without it having to be published in a scientific journal.
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- daveFNbuck 8y agoTo be clear, my question is how you know how many failed replications there are that you never find out about.
- conception 8y agoThe 2nd part of academia that isn't being talked about here is citations. Getting published can be huge, but if your paper is actually garbage no one is going to cite it. That's a far better measure of the impact of a paper - who's using the data in it.