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Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets - C C - Oct 18, 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03177-1
INTRO: In a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data — and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study1 of its kind in ecology demonstrates how much results in the field can vary, not because of differences in the environment, but because of scientists’ analytical choices.
“There can be a tendency to treat individual papers’ findings as definitive,” says Hannah Fraser, an ecology meta researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia and a co-author of the study. But the results show that “we really can’t be relying on any individual result or any individual study to tell us the whole story”... (MORE - details)
RE: Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets - Magical Realist - Oct 18, 2023
I suspect that reproducibility is highly overrated. I mean even the event of our birth is mathematically highly unreproducible, (see below).I gravitate towards phenomena that can't be reproduced. The many things that happen everyday that are essentially anomalous. Such things tend to be much more interesting in the long run than the reproducible. An inner urge towards ontic anarchy..
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