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Re:Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible by Alex3917 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @09:07AM (#5680211)
"And with a lot of research going on, well, you can expect a lot of false positives."

Why would you expect a lot of false positives? Aren't results supposed to be reproducible at least 95% of the time?

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Re:Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible by gordaco on Thursday May 09, 2013 @09:15AM (#5680249)
I was thinking about absolute numbers, so 5% of a lot can still be a lot.
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