2011 "good science" brainstorming by Junior Lab students - http://openwetware.org/wiki...
Aug 31, 2011
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Results: Once again, reproducibility was voted to be the most important thing to good science by the students. I tried not to influence the vote, at least consciously, but I'd already talked about good notebooks and open notebook science. Interestingly, students told me that reproducibility has been beaten into their heads by gradeschool and highschool science teachers, which surprised me, pleasantly. Lots of great arguments were made by the students, making me feel very optimistic about this generation of scientists. One student (I think Skylar) made a good argument that "verification by peers" encompassed reproducibility and many of the other nominations.
- Steve Koch