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by i-am-curious 2129 days ago
And any such "research" should go in the bin. Reproducibility of final results a me d their review is key.
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No, you should publish this research and be clear with how it all worked out and someone will reproduce it in their own way.

Reproducibility isn't usually about having a button to press that magically gives you the researchers' results. It's also not always a set of perfect instructions. More often it is a documentation of what happen and what was observed as the researcher's believe is important to the understanding of the research questions. Sometimes we don't know what's important to document so we try to document as much as possible. This isn't always practical and sometimes it is obviously unnecessary.