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Sep 7, 2019 • 14 tweets • 11 min read
Last talk of day 2: James Evans from KnowledgeLab talking to us @ #metascience2019 about “the social limits of scientific certainty.”
How can we scale up scientific logic to address All the Data? How does Science As a System think?
Evans: dense social connections distort certainty. Professional networks shape judgements in peer review; scientific validity is a sociological phenomenon. Clustered tastes are clustered epistemologies: centralized communities generate less replicable results. #metascience2019