Misha comments on Error detection bias in research - Less Wrong

54 Post author: neq1 22 September 2010 03:00AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 September 2010 03:48:31PM 0 points [-]

Fluid dynamics seems to be a much more serious field than the one I was doing an REU in. None of the standard papers I read even considered supplying code. Fortunately I have found a different field of study.

Also, you have persuaded me to include code in my senior thesis. Which I admit I've also debugged in a manner similar to the one mentioned in the article... I kept fixing bugs until my polynomials stopped taking up a whole page of Mathematica output and started fitting onto one line. Usually a good sign.