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Original results often aren’t reproducible because as you said they’re incentivized to publish significant results, and therefore often find an effect that isn’t there: 1. Experimental design - Researchers make design choices to lead to significant results (e.g.... 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...