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(Amal Deena A21F)PT 1 : Is replicability necessary in the production of…

- - - - Can the exact same conditions be replicated? If replication isn't possible then is the knowledge not justified?
        
        Human Sciences : In 2012, a group of researchers conducted 100 studies from three respected psychology journals that showed only 36 per cent of studies could be reproduced.
        
        Replication can increase certainty when findings are reproduced and promote innovation when they are not. Therefore, replicability serves as verification of what we think we know. It does not mean that the knowledge is not true. NOT NECESSARY
        
        NECESSARY-if all conditions are met, but not same, could be there is a mistake
        But, it means that there could be a mistake. This is dangerous because “Today, we’re mutually dependent other groups' research, because we cite each other and build upon each other’s work. In this way, a single mistake can multiply and create a cascade of bad research, that is very hard to detect and takes long time to correct,” Associate Professor David Budtz Pedersen from the Department of Communication, Aalborg University, Denmark. says.
        
        “A lack of reproducibility may also indicate that we don’t understand parts of the experiment well enough yet and so it’s difficult to reproduce all of the relevant parts, because we don’t know what they are, and then we change a couple of parameters that we thought didn’t matter.” says Associate Professor Mikkel Johansen from the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This means lack of replicability of an experiment could also because of the lack of information from the original author of the original conditions of the experiment.
        
        Mathematics : The process of understanding the study is in a way replicating the study because the paper is the work itself, unlike experiments in human or natural sciences. Applicable for most mathemathical theories
        
        But, as mathematics become more advanced, it becomes harder to understand, even by experts. Therefore, it is hard to verify the study
        
        Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki have claimed to find the proof of the abc conjecture, a complex mathematical problem that baffled everyone. For a long time, mathematicians believe that the conjecture was true, but nobody had ever been able to prove it. In 2012, in a series of four papers totaling about 500 pages posted to his website, Mochizuki proposed his new inter-universal Teichmüller theory, a new kind of mathematics. Other mathematicians have spent the years since trying to decipher it. Scores of conferences and papers hundreds of pages long have been devoted to figuring out what the unprecedented theory actually meant, and still no one was really able to get to the bottom of it.
        NNECESSARY : no one can understand the knowledge
    - - Limits of replicability- If people stayed stuck in determining the validity of knowledge through replicability, then knowledge wouldn't have expanded as much as it has now
      - Could the necessity of replicability also limits the knowledge that can be acquired? What are those limits?
  - - - Is it possible for every knowledge to be replicated?
- - - - Effects of a decreased likeliness of a true research
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