evgenit comments on The Stable State is Broken - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Bakkot 12 March 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: Bakkot 13 March 2012 12:27:33AM *  2 points [-]

That's it exactly! Thanks much. (It's a little disappointing how close my article comes to his, even stylistically. This was completely unintentional; I hadn't read his since it was published.)

Re: journals, I've edited it to also mention reproductions (which are accepted much less frequently). I should have mentioned reproductions in the first place, although what I was thinking of was more failures to reproduce results (as in the parapsychology example).

Comment author: evgenit 13 March 2012 02:53:58PM 0 points [-]

Replications make much more sense as an example. You could also add the file-drawer problem in research. Why do we not see studies that do not find anything? Because there is no prestige in publishing them. (Some journals do try to correct for this, but they have to explicitly do that)