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Re: NYTimes: New Truths That Only One Can See
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Eli Kuslansky <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:13:04 -0500
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tricky universe we have


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Charles Carlson <
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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.
>
>
> Sent from Charlie Carlson's iPad
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