Spell check for research? Confronting the reproducibility crisis with explainable AI
You might have heard of the famous “marshmallow test.” The study, and follow-ups that extended over decades, found that children who could delay gratification—and consequently get two marshmallows instead of one—tended to have better life outcomes. But a 2018 study challenged those results. And many other widely accepted findings from high-profile studies of the past have faced new scrutiny over the last decade. Since the nature of science is one study building upon another, what has come to be known as the reproducibility crisis (or replication crisis) has cast a shadow on some impo...