[ajg4]

that's an interesting comparison. it shows the ratio between people doing actual research and people reproducing what other people already did.

[Denvercoder9]

Not really. Reproducing research can create surprising results (if it doesn't match what you're trying to reproduce), and novel research can be unsurprising (if practice matches with the theory).

[adrianN]

You can do actual original research without finding anything surprising.