Mastodawn

I wrote today about a big study on replication--and why it's so hard to know if a study will hold up or not. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/4sNu3MF

Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.

The New York Times

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Pascal Hingamp 3d ago

@Carl_Zimmer great article and essential if overlooked subject ! Even the smallest and virtually costless step in that direction is totally ignored (at least in biology): making data and code available with each and every published paper. In an undergrad DataViz class, students are just to replicate the graphics from papers. Well might as well ask students to bring rocks back from the moon 😂. As an author I'm as a culprit as others, but this exercise had taught me a lesson. Bit late though😭