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It is often claimed that scientific results must be replicable. Is this possible or desirable in other Areas of Knowledge?
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It is often claimed that scientific results must be replicable. Is this possible or desirable in other Areas of Knowledge? As the worldly wisdom suggests always think twice and try to ascertain if you are right. The replication of scientific results makes them reliable, if it weren't so, we couldn't rely on any results, because then lots of errors would have occurred and no perception which results are right would be found. People are in need of generalizations, they imply that it is easier to live when everything is orderly put into drawers, so they are trying to divide everything in groups and decide, whether the information is reliable or not and the more replications are done the bigger reliability of results is. However, can we always do the replication and why do the results differ? In natural sciences experiments are made frequently, the science is more or less...
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