[HN Gopher] Reproducibility: Expect Less of the Scientific Paper
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       Reproducibility: Expect Less of the Scientific Paper
        
       Author : Schiphol
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-09-30 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
        
       | kkoncevicius wrote:
       | I think this article has one key insight: that generating new
       | ideas and rigorously testing them are orthogonal activities. More
       | than that - if people who generate ideas are also responsible for
       | selling them they will likely overstate their evidence and hide
       | inconvenient facts.
       | 
       | But after this excellent point the rest of the article seemed
       | like incomplete speculation: "Maybe there will be two kinds of
       | scientists, maybe some scientists will have to take less
       | autonomous roles, maybe we need to pick most promising high-
       | impact ideas and assign them for testing".
       | 
       | I wish authors spent more time distilling their proposal and
       | making it concrete.
        
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