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In biology, neuroscience, and psychology replication failure is often the result of an impedance mismatch between reductive models and real systems complexity.

This is an acute problem in animal research where 90% of work gets away with using a single genotype in a single environment. And then the “wise” old heads at NIH wonder that there is a replication bias? Really?




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