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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 23 October 2013 02:38:07PM 4 points [-]

Are engineers better than scientists at predicting which results will turn out to be true?

Scientists have to come with new ideas, engineers are allowed (even encouraged) to repeat already tried ideas. So I would expect engineers to get much better predictions.

Comment author: lmm 23 October 2013 04:20:22PM 0 points [-]

Well sure, I'd expect the predictions an engineer makes professionally to be more accurate than those a scientist does. I meant if we tested them on the same set of predictions (e.g. recent experimental results which didn't yet have a replication attempt)

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