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by 101010010101 5310 days ago
In general, beware statistics. Check and double check before making assumptions. This applies to more than just neuroscience papers.

When reading scientific papers, beware conclusions.

Isn't the important thing whether someone else can replicate the experiments and achieve similar/same results?

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>Isn't the important thing whether someone else can replicate the experiments and achieve similar/same results? //

Or whether a statistically significant proportion of experiments return a significantly similar result?

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If the experiments are replicated enough times by other labs to create an sufficient sample size.