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Polizeiposaunetoday at 1:29 AM3 repliesview on HN

That rule would make it difficult to report on a failure to replicate a published paper.


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toast0today at 6:06 AM

If the failure is replicated by multiple groups, that would be reportable.

Otoh, not sure that anyone wants to read a report that some finding that nobody reported on couldn't be replicated.

freediddytoday at 1:36 AM

Every paper needs to include an independent replication of the study.

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hirvi74today at 2:02 AM

Does some sort of batched style of research already exist? By batched, I mean a study where n number of teams all agree on a single methodology, and then conduct the same experiment simultaneously. Each team could then publish their results independently and the teams could publish one aggregate.

I know meta studies attempt to do this in a way, but they can sometimes have their own problems too.

I cannot recall coming across this style of research in much of what I have read as a hobby, but maybe it is more common in some domains than others? I am not smart, and there is nothing new under the Sun, so surely something like this exists, no?