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The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video]

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by domofutu

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There's also all the (potentially relevant) factors no one's considering - https://www.thetransmitter.org/methods/mouse-housing-tempera...

by dgfitz

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I spent two days trying to get repeatable data from a piece of hardware. Was not able to replicate a dataset once, found out we had a bad high-pressure hose for the brake system and the numbers were all broken.
I have no fucking clue how a soft science study could replicate itself.

by bjourne

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Did no one watch the talk? :) After 13 minutes it ends and tells you to go to a IAI website to continue to watch. Fucking infuriating.

by jMyles

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This paper was life-changing for me as an undergrad (and I didn't discover the rest of his body of work until I ran into it later here on HN in 2010 or so).
We are blessed as a species that John stuck to his principles - and his thirst for empiricism - during the COVID-19 panic, and supported / encouraged his colleagues to do likewise.
This video is only the first 12 minutes of the talk. The rest is here (though it is possibly semi-paywalled? It let me watch it, even though it said it was going to make me sign up for a trial):
https://iai.tv/video/why-most-published-research-findings-ar...

by d0mine

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It is worth pointing out that compared to * everything else on the internet, science is the epitome of truth, facts, reproducibility, etc.
It might not appear so at the first glance due to Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.