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by d0mine 1656 days ago
Yes, a significant proportion of all scientific research is not reproducible e.g., "Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test" https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248 Cancer research: "scientific findings were confirmed in only 6 (11%) cases." https://www.nature.com/articles/483531a
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Those aren’t CS papers, social science and biology research have constraints that CS does not. I haven’t seen any evidence that there is anywhere close to that level of issue here. A couple of conferences adopted artifact review where an independent reviewer attempts to reproduce the experiments listed in the paper. Nearly all papers that participate do end up passing