Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?

• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Replication rarely happens and in many cases is outright impossible due to lack of shared code.

  Things should be replicable, but that hasn’t been the case for a while.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So then the failure of the scientific method is that people aren’t following it. That’s not so much a problem with the method.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If a method can’t practically be followed it’s a sign of a bad method, or at least one that needs modification.

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      • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not that it can’t practically be followed, it is just that everyone running after H-index or whatever the hot thing is now has resulted in a drop in quality.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It can easily be followed. Just not within capitalism.

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  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the correct term you need is ‘unachievable’, not ‘false’.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s just wordplay to make the problem seem like it’s not as big of a problem.

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      • force@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Common standards for language formally used in a specific profession aren’t “wordplay” lol

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