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Is There a Replication Crisis?
Wherever there is human judgment, there is noise. Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients. Two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matcing crimes. There are way more people doing science now than there were in the past. And so one of the problems that you have to deal with is, when you have lots of people doing experiments, you know that some of them are going to be really wrong. But also have shockingly convincing data. Which is why you ar you to run it again. Because it's the equivalent of someone publishing a paper that says, holy sit, i picked up a coin and flipped it ten times