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What 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 t
by eru 1y ago
What 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.