Reproducibility

In numerous fields of scientific research, a prevalent problem has been the inability to reproduce the experimental results claimed in academic papers and journals. In a 2016 survey conducted by Nature, the world's most renowned scientific journal, 70% of respondents claimed that they have failed to reproduce their own or another researcher's experimental results. Moreover, the attitude toward the inability to reproduce experimental results was a stark one, with 90% of researchers thinking that there is indeed a reproducibility crisis.

The original work reported by nature can be found here: https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

While this survey targeted researchers across a ...

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