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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) by tomrod on Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:49PM (#18107286)
Why not arxiv?
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) by chrisseaton on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:20PM (#18107838)
Why not arXiv... what?

Why not arXiv pay people to do reproductions? They don't have anything like the funding required to do that.

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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) by tomrod on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:34PM (#18107924)
Why not host reproductions in arXiv to build up a name, similar to how devs use github to build a profile.
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) by chrisseaton on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:39PM (#18107952)
The problem isn't literally hosting the reproduction study result PDF files when you're done - you could do that on GitHub or anywhere else nobody cares.

The problem is funding the time and resources needed to do the reproduction studies themselves.

> The problem I can see right now with scientific community is that, no one pays you to re-implement the same idea just to confirm that it is correct.

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