{"id":6143,"date":"2012-10-09T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2012-10-09T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:25:38","slug":"when-is-the-critical-rate-of-discoveries-that-warrants-any-further-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/10\/when-is-the-critical-rate-of-discoveries-that-warrants-any-further-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the critical rate of discoveries that warrants any further experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently dicussing that problem too what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/encode-the-human-encyclopaedia-1.11312\">Nature writes<\/a> about the Encode project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question is, where to stop? Kellis says that some experimental approaches could hit saturation points: if the rate of discoveries falls below a certain threshold, the return on each experiment could become too low to pursue<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always &#8211; the scientific method once invoked &#8211; creates beautiful results but when it comes to justification of programs or methods it&#8217;s all about personal preferences, irrational beliefs, common misunderstandings, conformance to general trends, and whatsoever non-scientific influences.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently dicussing that problem too what Nature writes about the Encode project: The question is, where to stop? Kellis says that some experimental approaches could hit saturation points: if the rate of discoveries falls below a certain threshold, the return on each experiment could become too low to pursue As always &#8211; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/10\/when-is-the-critical-rate-of-discoveries-that-warrants-any-further-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When is the critical rate of discoveries that warrants any further experiment?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2258,2766,2044],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-justification","tag-program","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","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=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6145,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}