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Burnstryk t1_ixwi3uc wrote

That's because it's almost impossible. Even if I did include the complete methodology, someone would have to write the code to implement the method. If it takes me an entire PhD to correctly research a problem and write code to solve a problem, there is no way someone else is replicating that. They can just look over it and see if the underlying theory and assumptions are valid.

There are many incorrect papers out there, but that doesn't make it bad research, sometimes you need to start with simple assumptions and others will build on that.

Most data (in physics at least) is not replicated, you just have to lay out the steps so someone could theoretically replicate it.

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