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FEATURED RESEARCH: 2 Recent Papers on the Role of the Media in Reproducibility
Two recent papers look at the influence of media on replications and retractions. A paper by Eleonora Alabrese concludes that “media coverage shapes the auto-correcting process of science by reducing the amount of misinformation and increasing punishment for retracted authors.”…
Read MorePredicting Reproducibility: Rise of the Machines
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Estimating the deep replicability of scientific findings using human and artificial intelligence” by Yang Yang, Wu Youyou, and Brian Uzzi, published in PNAS] “…we trained an artificial intelligence model to estimate a paper’s replicability using…
Read MoreIt May Be Intelligent, But Is It Reproducible?
[Excerpts taken from the article, “Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis’” by Gregory Barber, published at Wired.com] “A few years ago, Joelle Pineau, a computer science professor at McGill, was helping her students design a new algorithm when they fell…
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