Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity.

ABSTRACT: Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility is a desirable property of scientific discovery. Yet seemingly science also progresses despite irreproducible results, indicating that the relationship between reproducibility and other desirable properties of scientific discovery is not well understood. These properties include early discovery of truth, persistence on truth once it is discovered, and time spent on truth in a long-term scientific inquiry. We build a mathematical model of scientific discovery that presents a viable framework to study its desirable properties including reproducibility. In this framework, we assume that scientists

SUBMITTER: Devezer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519896 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature