To teach scientific reproducibility, start young

March 01, 2014

In the wake of retraction scandals and studies showing reproducibility rates as low as 10 percent for peer-reviewed articles, the scientific community has focused attention on ways to improve transparency and duplication. A team of math and statistics professors has proposed a way to address one root of that problem: teach and emphasize reproducibility to aspiring scientists, using software that makes the concept feel logical rather than cumbersome.

Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/i9N2YCO0c8U/140228140138.htm