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Re:Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash by chris_wot on Saturday June 27, 2015 @03:49PM (#9791326)
But then you risk thinking you understand the system, but you actually don't. How can you be sure the equipment failure didn't make you see something that wasn't there?
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Re:Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash by mbreese on Saturday June 27, 2015 @04:07PM (#9791379)
That's why you repeat the experiment to confirm your results. A result due to a sporadic equipment failure likely won't be reproducible. If you can't replicate your own results, how could you expect anyone else to be able to?
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