{"id":20308,"date":"2022-08-02T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:16:57","slug":"replication-crisis2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/08\/replication-crisis2\/","title":{"rendered":"(replication crisis)^2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always laughed at the papers\u00a0 in the &#8220;Journal of Irreproducible Results&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20309\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/the-best-of-the-journal-of-irreproducible-results\/473440\/item\/276126\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3NnCm72l-QIVpHNvBB1nIwSWEAQYAiABEgK6__D_BwE#idiq=276126&amp;edition=1874246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20309 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/51ykinbfpZL._SL500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/the-best-of-the-journal-of-irreproducible-results\/473440\/item\/276126\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3NnCm72l-QIVpHNvBB1nIwSWEAQYAiABEgK6__D_BwE#idiq=276126&amp;edition=1874246<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then we had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/533452a\">replication crisis<\/a> and nobody laughed anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And today? It seems that irreproducible research is set to reach a new height. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02035-w\">Elizabeth Gibney<\/a> discusses\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2207.07048\">arXiv paper<\/a> by Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan basically saying that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>reviewers do not have the time to scrutinize these models, so academia currently lacks mechanisms to root out irreproducible papers, he says. Kapoor and his co-author Arvind Narayanan created guidelines for scientists to avoid such pitfalls, including an explicit checklist to submit with each paper &#8230; The failures are not the fault of any individual researcher, he adds. Instead, a combination of hype around AI and inadequate checks and balances is to blame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Algorithms being stuck on shortcuts that don\u2019t always hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/03\/another-problem-in-ai-out-of-distribution-generalization\/\">has been discussed here earlier<\/a> . Also data leakage (good old confounding) due to proxy variables seems to be also a common issue.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 16.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always laughed at the papers\u00a0 in the &#8220;Journal of Irreproducible Results&#8221; &nbsp; then we had the replication crisis and nobody laughed anymore. &nbsp; And today? It seems that irreproducible research is set to reach a new height. Elizabeth Gibney discusses\u00a0an arXiv paper by Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan basically saying that reviewers do not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/08\/replication-crisis2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(replication crisis)^2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[3358,1995,3875,2995,3874],"class_list":["post-20308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-ai","tag-algorithm","tag-data-leakage","tag-hype","tag-pitfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20322,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions\/20322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}