Imagine if each new grant funded came with at least 1 compulsory replication of a previously-unreplicated finding… And also imagine if scientists were evaluated on how easy it is to setup a replication of their published findings, and how well their findings replicate…
Wouldn’t that be the best way to move science forward as well as properly evaluate scientific quality of individuals?
@elduvelle better would be to stop doing so much evaluation and get rid of grant funding so that the incentive to do unreproducible science was reduced. 😉
@elduvelle good conversation starter! I think this would be good. Would you additionally require that the replication not be from your own lab or the lab of any of your supervisors? Maybe a replication with an additional element, i.e. with a new technique or ability to measure something more accurately or with more power.
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