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https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a > More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scien
by angelzen 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
> More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the telling figures that emerged from Nature's survey of 1,576 researchers who took a brief online questionnaire on reproducibility in research.
If 70% the GNU/Linux installations failed to boot, are you sure you'd take it on faith?
- mcguire 5y ago"“It's healthy that people are aware of the issues and open to a range of straightforward ways to improve them,” says Munafo. And given that these ideas are being widely discussed, even in mainstream media, tackling the initiative now may be crucial. “If we don't act on this, then the moment will pass, and people will get tired of being told that they need to do something.”"
- Aperocky 5y agoIf you installed ALL packages from npm, yum or pip, I wouldn't be surprised if 70% contains significant bugs or won't even start. Afterall, I published like 5 of them out of about 2 weeks worth of work and never looked at them again. But it's not that 70% that matters, it's the stable branch OS that you're running. It's the science that has been there for decades, that is the backbone of that faith.