Not an explanation, but a related resource: Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science
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replication crisis
I’d love a good explanation of this, because I feel I only understand pieces but not enough to explain it to others. I know there are issues where only significant results get published, so if someone redoes a published experiment and it fails, the failure to replicate doesn’t...