alt Hacker News? More samples reduces the variance of a statistic. Obviously it cannot identify systematic bias in a model, or establish causality, or make a "bad" question "good". Its not overrated though -- it would strengthen or weaken the case for many papers.
? More samples reduces the variance of a statistic. Obviously it cannot identify systematic bias in a model, or establish causality, or make a "bad" question "good". Its not overrated though -- it would strengthen or weaken the case for many papers.
If you have a strong grip on exactly what it means, sure, but look at any HN thread on the topic of fraud in science. People think replication = validity because it's been described as the replication crisis for the last 15 years. And that's the best case!
Funding replication studies in the current environment would just lead to lots of invalid papers being promoted as "fully replicated" and people would be fooled even harder than they already are. There's got to be a fix for the underlying quality issues before replication becomes the next best thing to do.