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was amused to see someone on G+ yesterday refer to Friendfeed as "the Dreamcast of social networks"...
I'm looking for some references which show evidence that some basic research is unnecessarily repeated due to a lack of openness or access to data - or is this not true? There are plenty of papers which say secrecy in science makes it difficult to accurately repeat research when necessary, but is there also unnecessary repetition?
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@Neil, thanks, interesting idea, I guess that could be one place to start!
- Lucy Power
I'm not sure it's that easy to distinguish between lack of openness and literature search failure
- Pawel Szczesny
from iPhone
In the argument around peer review this came up. I think it might be very difficult to quantify. I can give you a couple of anecdotes but given I've spent the last several days whining about anecdotal evidence... :-)
- Cameron Neylon
Back in the late 80s there was some research in the engineering technological gatekeepers literature showing that researchers would not walk 400 feet to the library to find an answer to a question, but would instead repeat the study. This was part of a body of literature examining preferred information sources for different specialties, with similar findings for all professions studied. I used the cite in a paper I wrote, but I no longer have electronic access to the original. If I can find it ... ?
- Patricia F. Anderson
and the formal link: http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-inv... #web2untangled
At Wolfson today, attending and speaking at the #web2untangled Web 2.0 Untangled conference. http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010...
in Brighton for mLiife conference on uses of mobile technology - back in Oxford end of week and head down to get some writing done!
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Fwd: We have transferred FriendFeed to Facebook's data centers, which has fixed many of the ongoing performance problems we have had with the site and will provide us more room to grow. (via http://ff.im/hX07c) Yay. Search seems to be back!
Rewind, reboot, restart - http://lucypower.com/1-return/
@GrrlScientist except the Times are v. selective:"most effective single measure (meat-free diet) gives a 20% reduction" http://www.murphy-bokern.com/images...
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