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I didn’t mean that the raw data analysis should be done by laymen, I meant it should be done by peer scientists, who are trained in the same way as anyone else
by nis0s 2y ago
I didn’t mean that the raw data analysis should be done by laymen, I meant it should be done by peer scientists, who are trained in the same way as anyone else in your field. It might also help sending such raw data to someone who isn’t a competitor, or directly related to your field.
- bediger4000 2y agoI had a vague sense this was often done. In the popular articles about some paper, there's often a quote from a researcher in the same field that the article you explicitly notes is not involved in the original paper
- nis0s 2y agoTraditionally, scientists provide their analyzed results and figures to peer reviewers, but raw data itself is seldom provided to reviewers to confirm or reject a hypothesis in a double-blind fashion.