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And how many people are going to look through all the raw data you used and try to reproduce your results from it? And it's not even possible from that data to
by joppy 8y ago
And how many people are going to look through all the raw data you used and try to reproduce your results from it? And it's not even possible from that data to verify that the experimental setup that was producing the data in the first place was valid and and well-executed.
There are famous examples of widely-used open-source software having bad bugs (for example, OpenSSL) which no-one found, because although it was so widely used, no-one was performing careful enough analysis of the codebase. And programmers are actually paid to look at code all day. No-one working in a research institution is paid or recognised for trying to verify someone else's data or check that their research makes sense - this was the job of peer review. (Even peer review is unpaid and unrecognised at many institutions.)
- marcus_holmes 8y agoopen source is not a sure-fire way of catching all bugs, but it's still better than closed-source. We're talking an improved situation, not a perfect situation.