Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials
by specialist on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:35PM
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Yes and:
It's wicked hard just to get reproducible results (one facet of the replication crisis). Much less the challenges you list.
Confusion and miscommunication is the norm. Rising above that take Real Effort™.
One of my formative experiences was on a team trying to adopt the processes from the book Applying Use Cases. So simple. Really What could be more simple?
We had shared purpose. We all read the book (among others). We discussed. We all thought we were good to go.
And then the wheels fell off once real work started. Turns out we didn't agree. On anything. What is "the system"? What level of abstraction are we working at? What does this line (points at diagram) here mean?
Writing this now, experiencing PTSD flashbacks, I can confidently say I would have never succeeded as a scientist.
It's wicked hard just to get reproducible results (one facet of the replication crisis). Much less the challenges you list.
Confusion and miscommunication is the norm. Rising above that take Real Effort™.
One of my formative experiences was on a team trying to adopt the processes from the book Applying Use Cases. So simple. Really What could be more simple?
We had shared purpose. We all read the book (among others). We discussed. We all thought we were good to go.
And then the wheels fell off once real work started. Turns out we didn't agree. On anything. What is "the system"? What level of abstraction are we working at? What does this line (points at diagram) here mean?
Writing this now, experiencing PTSD flashbacks, I can confidently say I would have never succeeded as a scientist.