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Yes but it's famous because it's the exception to the rule. It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replicati
by sgillen 5y ago
Yes but it's famous because it's the exception to the rule. It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replication crises in the same way the social sciences do.
- Iwan-Zotow 5y ago> It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replication crises in the same way the social sciences do. But it does! Look, in social sciences there are a lot of lousy papers written by people who doesn't know statistics, acceptance criteria etc. There are problems with "average" papers. In math there are no problems with "average" papers, afaik. People are following those papers and rather quickly find flows or confirm the result. In math there are problems with "exceptional" papers. Holes in Fermat theorem proof or abc paper were taken years to find, patch and settle.
- ColinWright 5y agoWhat you mention here is not a "replication crisis", it's simply a settling of proofs that are at the advancing edge of the subject. Analysing recent papers is not what the "replication crisis" is about. The "Replication Crisis" is about confirming long-standing results that are widely accepted, and yet when re-examined for the purpose of replication cannot be confirmed.
- Iwan-Zotow 5y agoI fail to see the difference. "abc" was accepted - it was published in the peer-reviewed journal. Mat his different from social studies, but (and here I disagree with OP) it has it's own share of replication problem(s)
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- Iwan-Zotow 5y agoand abc saga is still ongoing...