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> I encourage the interested to read https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reproducibilit https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reproducibilit..
by throwaway2245 6y ago
> I encourage the interested to read https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reproducibilit https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reproducibilit...
This link clearly talks about reproducible results, not reproducible data.
Wherever there is some degree of randomness, we would not expect to get the same data, but we would expect to draw the same conclusion.
See also: the Mendelian paradox - it is sometimes argued that Gregor Mendel's results were too perfect, and yet he is honoured as the father of genetics.
- dekhn 6y agoas several of my genetics teachers put it: "wow, mendel was really so lucky that he just randomly managed to pick 7 independently associating traits on different chromosomes" (the molecular biologists in the audience all shook their heads)