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Can we all agree to not cite any study that a) doesn't exist, b) cannot be reproduced, or c) includes fake data? For bonus points, the participants of the b) a
by caseysoftware 1y ago
Can we all agree to not cite any study that a) doesn't exist, b) cannot be reproduced, or c) includes fake data?
For bonus points, the participants of the b) and c) options should be forced to pay back whoever funded their research.
- eru 1y agoWhat do you mean by 'cannot be reproduced'? If I do a simple study where I flip a coin a million times and write down the result, you are unlikely to be able to reproduce the same result.
- harvey9 1y agoIn this context we would be talking about reproducing the experimental conditions and method. Obviously it is unlikely that someone else would get the same sequence you did.
- eru 1y agoBasically, the whole thing is a bit more complicated. However, it's useful to require pre-registration and sharing of data etc for studies you plan to fund. Ideally, you give researchers an in-principle approval, but then hold the funds in escrow and only disburse them after they published their data etc. (Financial markets can provide the bridge financing between in-principle approval and actual disbursal.) There's many journals that have open data requirements, but more often than not they are flouted. The above suggestion would give them real teeth.
- xboxnolifes 1y agoI'm pretty sure if we both flipped a million coins, our results would be very similar.
- tgv 1y agoIn case you're not trolling: to reproduce a paper means to achieve the reported result within an acceptable margin through independent replication of the experiment. Since nobody is referring to a paper which reports one million coin flips, reproduction is not in question.