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Dan_Moore comments on This is why we can't have social science - Less Wrong Discussion

36 Post author: Costanza 13 July 2014 09:04PM

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Comment author: Dan_Moore 14 July 2014 01:43:24PM 1 point [-]

The goal is to set up the experiments to make it solely about the results and not about colleagues. If 'scientific integrity' means sloppy, porous experimental setup, then impugning this is not a bad thing. Ideally the experimental design and execution should transcend the question of the researchers' motives.