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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by BurningFrog on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:03AM (#18369095)
I know. And I think it's a problem for science...

Logical proofs will never happen for software development, but surely standards for scientific programming can be tightened up a few levels!

I think I heard of some reform proposals from the Reproducibility Crisis reformers.

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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by Fomite on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:07AM (#18369104)
I more mean there are whole aspects of science that aren't provable without being able to actually obtain counterfactuals, and that means time machines
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