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From my experience, math/computer-science type research is almost always exactly reproducible.
by TheRealNGenius 7y ago
From my experience, math/computer-science type research is almost always exactly reproducible.
- asdff 7y agoIt would be surprising if it weren't. You are rerunning a list of instructions in a common syntax on common equipment shared among everyone. Every instruction and line is documented somewhere by someone. Imagine if programming languages were a thing produced by nature and no one knew any of the commands, and new commands were found by just testing them out or theorizing that they might exist. You'd be getting the nobel prize for proving ls can take arguments. Biology is not a clean science. Results are noisy. Results can be different depending on the manufacturers batch of the reagent.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> math/computer-science type research is almost always exactly reproducible. Math, including computer science, is almost entirely pure logic, not empirical science (despite the name of the latter), so it's not even in the same epistemological domain where reproducibility is conceptually a concern.