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Is there a level of collaboration among so many people that at least data can be re-used without being "reproduced"? I.e. the field as a whole has put enough wo
by abeppu 4y ago
Is there a level of collaboration among so many people that at least data can be re-used without being "reproduced"? I.e. the field as a whole has put enough work into an apparatus or infrastructure that we can regard the initial observation to have been trustworthy? We shouldn't have to build a second LHC before we believe any claims from the first one, right?
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoActually the LHC does have two detectors with completely independent research teams, often doing the same experiment.
- chmod600 4y agoHypothesis comes before data collection in the scientific method. You can share equipment, but if you share data, then it's the same experiment not a new one reproducing the first. Sharing data would not only miss fraud, it would miss experimental errors (e.g. spilled beer in the petri dish), p-hacking, etc.