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How big data has created a big crisis in science

  • Written by Kai Zhang, Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How big data has created a big crisis in scienceScientists are facing a reproducibility crisis.Y Photo Studio/shutterstock.com

There’s an increasing concern among scholars that, in many areas of science, famous published results tend to be impossible to reproduce.

This crisis can be severe. For example, in 2011, Bayer HealthCare reviewed 67 in-house projects and found that they could...

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