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> My conclusions were flat out wrong and there was nothing to salvage from the data. Wow that’s pretty crazy. I have to say many times in my career I’ve been
by shusaku 2y ago
> My conclusions were flat out wrong and there was nothing to salvage from the data.
Wow that’s pretty crazy. I have to say many times in my career I’ve been writing a paper and realized “** there’s a bug”, and had to redo everything. But the overall conclusion never changed because the idea was grounded from several different angles(usually the pieces fit together even better). One bug might invalidate your result, but even if your code was correct the underlying assumptions behind the code could be wrong! I think the real issue was your boss wasn’t active enough in your work to make it robust to coding mistakes.
- jboggan 2y ago>I think the real issue was your boss wasn’t active enough in your work to make it robust to coding mistakes. That's a major issue and it went beyond coding, I picked a very well known and influential advisor and eventually discovered he didn't really direct any research or write papers, that was all the research assistants and postdocs. I was pretty much left on my own and expected to surface with a paper to put his name on.