• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    But what actually happens is you do something you read in a paper, then you fail, get super frustrated, publish a paper titled “Doing X doesn’t lead to Y”, and several people suddenly start telling you they all knew that but never bothered to tell anyone.

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      6 months ago

      Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!!

      That’s like 3/4 - 7/8 of science, the being wrong part!

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        6 months ago

        Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!

        + Normalize and incentivize attempting to replicate existing findings!

        With these two recommendations we’d speed up discovery exponentially.