xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis
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Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn’t enough–maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3117/
I once experienced this firsthand. The postdoc kept coming by, trying to find out how we were messing up something he had written a paper on. Eventually, he tried to reproduce it himself. No one could reproduce it, not even him.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
is there an xkcd about there being an xkcd about everything though?
Oh, I don’t pretend to have read every single one. But it’s odd how regularly there is a topic of conversation with a relevant xkcd panel.
Replication failed successfully.
Or failed replications replicated successfully (could be useful, but was originally marked as failed to replicate)