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RESEARCH LITERACY LAB / RESEARCH FORMING
One lab, ten papers, one finding
Ten papers from one research group are not ten independent confirmations.
THE QUESTION
Look for independent research groups, not just a long list of publications.
COMMON MISREAD
A paper count can be mistaken for the number of independent teams that checked a result.
TAKE AWAY
Ask who repeated the experiment and whether the result held up.
INTERACTIVE PREVIEW / FULL LESSON FORMING
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FIELD CHECK / 01
Ten papers from one lab and one paper from a second lab: how many independent labs?
FURTHER READING
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- Research methodsNIH rigor and reproducibility ↗