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Re: Is it time to up the statistical standard for scientific... by SamuelMulder on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:19AM (#6725271)
By this criteria, there is very little science going on anywhere. We don't teach philosophy of science enough anymore. In most of the fields that I'm familiar with, reproducibility is very hard and rarely bothered about by either the original researcher or others in the field.
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Re: Is it time to up the statistical standard for scientific... by dllthomas on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @11:22AM (#6726213)
That's true, and it's a problem.
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Re: Is it time to up the statistical standard for scientific... by SamuelMulder on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @03:30PM (#6728240)
Agreed, but I'm not sure the solution is upping the statistical standards so much as educating researchers about what the statistical standards actually mean, how to use them, and how to construct a valid, repeatable experiment.
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Re: Is it time to up the statistical standard for scientific... by dllthomas on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:48PM (#6730215)
And, importantly, providing more incentive to actually attempt replication.
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