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> Scientific results can be strengthened by replication, but that's just one thing, and if that's all you do, then you end up with a science that does nothing b
by TeeMassive 5y ago
> Scientific results can be strengthened by replication, but that's just one thing, and if that's all you do, then you end up with a science that does nothing but generate independent factoids.
Scientific results are what makes science universal; since they can be reproduced everywhere by anyone.
- analog31 5y agoIndeed, at least until they can't be. The whole "reproducibility" business is because of an emerging "replication crisis," where it has been found that a large swath of published studies fail attempts at replication. Articles about this situation usually say something to the effect of "even in physics," though usually without evidence. A variety of causes have been proposed, such as abuse / ignorance of statistics, bad experimental design, and even outright chicanery.