1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud

Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by Waterluvian on Saturday November 03, 2018 @10:58AM (#18370484)

This has me really curious about the state of software engineering principles in academia if you can find bugs that invalidate 18 months of work.

I'm not saying it should have been preventable. It just looks like there may be opportunity to improve practices.

Admittedly I'm completely naive to the domain. Are there no forms of validation checkpoints you can reach where your foundations are rock solid and well backed with tests and such?

I had a Prof in grad school who lost years of cryospheric research data because an external hard drive was stolen. This was in 2010. It was a head scratcher, especially being faculty-adjacent to some of the best CS and engineering faculties in Canada.

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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by hiker512 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:53PM (#18371174)

I've seldomly seen a PhD student in CS here in Germany with a proper software engineering background. I know several that use Dropbox for version control on their code and don't know how to use git. Some at least know and use svn.

That stuff just isn't thought at universities and it's assumed, like oh so many things, that you take it up along the way.

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