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that's an interesting comparison. it shows the ratio between people doing actual research and people reproducing what other people already did.


Not really. Reproducing research can create surprising results (if it doesn't match what you're trying to reproduce), and novel research can be unsurprising (if practice matches with the theory).


You can do actual original research without finding anything surprising.




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