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4 is a strawman. The comment you are replying to did not say 100% details, it said "a methods section that allows a third party to fully recreate your experimen
by praestigiare 6y ago
4 is a strawman. The comment you are replying to did not say 100% details, it said "a methods section that allows a third party to fully recreate your experiment."
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoI took their meaning to be that the paper should have enough details be such that say a junior grad student could set up the same equipment and do the exact process described in the paper, and get pretty much the same results. I don't think this is possible. What is possible is the following. It's sufficient that the paper has the crucial details. And whoever tries to replicate will still have to apply some creativity, change some details, and learn some skills, and ultimately get slightly different results. In other words, enough detail to "fully recreate [any sufficiently complicated] experiment" is not possible to write down. Obviously, I am not providing any evidence for my position, besides my personal observations.
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