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Inverse Occam's Razor

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Inverse Occam's razor — mentioned by EvgeniyZh

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:59:18 GMT

For the first argument I can't really speak beyond my field (physics, or specifically condensed matter physics), where I think it's fairly hard to be subtle. Often it's partial data presentation which allows for inverse Occam razor [1] (proposing fancy explaination instead of a simple one), which is why full data publication requirement are important (and seem to happen more). In smaller sub (sub)fields sometimes fraud becomes large enough to self-sustain, like it happened with Majoranas [2,3] but even that kind of self-corrected. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08284 [2]…

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Inverse Occam's razor — mentioned by EvgeniyZh

Fri, 27 May 2022 21:45:20 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08284

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