The speed of science
Saloni Dattani, Nathaniel Bechhofer,
Works in progress,
Jan 03, 2022
As I read this article I can think of all the reasons why this idealistic proposal wouldn't work. But that makes it none the less compelling. I think that a domain like education especially would benefit from what might be thought of as open cooperative research. Dattani & Bechhofer's main point here isn't so much to standardize research (at least on my reading) as it is to divide the work and open it up so it can scale. If, then, standards emerge, they would emerge organically, through practice, rather than by fiat by organizations (with an agenda to promote) declaring this to define 'evidence' and that to define 'outcomes'. But there's more - like beginning the publication process and declaring the methodology before the study is carried out, for example, so there's no bias toward publishing favourable results.
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