4 ms·
All that does it create an industry for replication labs, and then a market where these labs compete to develop the most "guaranteed" replications for the least
by swatcoder 4y ago
All that does it create an industry for replication labs, and then a market where these labs compete to develop the most "guaranteed" replications for the least cost, and then a whole lot of replications which check the box but actually rely on strained interpretations, questionable modifications to process, uncaught fraud, etc.
That sounds worse than what we have since it just eviscerates the significance of what replication means in the first place.
- sebastialonso 4y agoIt's almost like the free market is not the silver bullet algorithm many seems to think it is.
- hackerlight 4y agoFree market? It's government funding doled out by centralized committees that drove this. It was actually the incentives created by the free market that finally unravelled this whole thing, as per the article.
- sooheon 4y agoWhat part about the described system is free or a market?
- smt88 4y agoThis would work. For-profit replication labs could be part of it, but the market would have to be regulated such that: - any university receiving public funding must participate in mandatory replication - some % of any grant would be reserved for replication - replication labs would be licensed/accredited, subject to government inspections - labs would not be able to choose who replicates their work - replication labs would be rewarded for the work, not for the outcome