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Another 2 items for your list: particular to your context: the experiment worked in your hands, but it works ~only within your particular context (the pollen mix in Austin, or your particular handwashing protocol, or the way people at your university smile to each other, or the... The crisis has many parts, which I think is a big part of why it’s a crisis and not just the "replication minor procedural error that we already corrected." Off the top of the my head: Everything you said (except I’m not sure how the winner’s curse applies here) Publish or... 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... Not an explanation, but a related resource: Feynman’s
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