TogepiMain

TogepiMain t1_jd7qbgj wrote

Oh wow, cool, now do the list of War crimes we haven't convicted their perpetrators for.

Also, oh look, I can use Wikipedia too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act

Yeah, I got real honest, good intentions from the Hague Invasion Act, definitely definitely not a thing we signed instead of joining the international criminal court, conveniently right after 9/11?

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TogepiMain t1_j984icn wrote

https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg

Pre register your paper! Calling your shot in science, so hot right now.

Seriously, millions and millions of dollars are wasted every year on repeated dead ends. Your paper showing hoe the thing you did didn't work? It is just as valuable. Sharing your mistakes is incredibly brave, and incredibly important. Every scientist that comes after you is able to reach further because you showed them where not to stray from the path.

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TogepiMain t1_j96nzsu wrote

Isn't it like, 1 in 3?

For the folks in the back: just because your experiment hasn't been replicated does not disprove your hypothesis. It might not even mean anything negative for your paper. There's lot of reasons why this can happen.

What matters at the end of the day is you can find multiple studies that show with hard data that your hypothesis carries weight. These days, that doesn't really even need to mean they show "statistical significance", just that the data as a whole all lends weight to the same idea. Lots of studies can even be found hard to replicate because they are pinholed into showing these statistical values that often don't truly represent the data as a whole.

As u/magic1623 is basically saying: failure to replicate comes from loads and loads of reasons, but not from falsified data, really. That's an entirely different problem that anyone reading the paper, or trying to recreate it, would quickly see bad maths, padded sig figs, generous rounding, truly faked stuff just to get the result you want.

There's nothing inherently nefarious about a paper you can't replicate, and there's not even inherently anything wrong with that paper. But if it's noticed that you just straight up lied to show what you needed the paper to show, that's a huge fucking issue.

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