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Would help in stuff that doesn't require physical measurements - e.g. computer science, neural network results; would not help in medicine, psychology, biology
by beagle3 6y ago
Would help in stuff that doesn't require physical measurements - e.g. computer science, neural network results; would not help in medicine, psychology, biology or chemistry, where reactions are reported by (often indirect) observation, and it is often the data that is fudged (or just made up) in retracted papers.
- hobofan 6y agoIt would also help with those to some degree, though I feel like a lot of them could do a lot better with what's currently available. I'm currently studying biochemistry and have a few years of experience as a software engineer. In trying to dive into the papers in the field and just trying to replicate the data analysis, I came to see how bad the state of data and code availability is. It varies a lot between subfields, but overall the current state seems pretty abysmal.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoIirc, some fake data papers have been identified because the random errors on the data were not correct. Besides reporting is good because others can do alternate analysis on the data.