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Here's a nice news article highlighting some of the difficult, to almost impossible nature of doing reproducible science.  It builds off of some of the work that's come out in the scientific community in recent years. It further highlights the importance of data, and access to it by others.  The difficult nature of creating reproducibly robust results is the primary reason most findings and conclusions are half right, half the time, and so situationally dependent.

We like to delude ourselves into thinking that the impossible sigmas of validation are different between for particle physics as opposed to the social sciences, but perhaps it's not the case, as much as we'd like to think it is.

Enjoy,
C

http://nyti.ms/1f6I0Kq

Replication, the gold standard of science, can help affirm the truth of a discovery, but it is getting harder all the time, raising questions about findings and unconscious bias.


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