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Replication The repetition or repeating of a study or experiment by different (independent) researchers employing the same or very similar procedure or research protocols while using new subjects – if involving human trials – and obtaining the same or equivalent results.
Some aspects may be altered in a partial replication. Evidence gathered in this way is especially valuable when those attempting the replications are competent, fair-minded sceptics of the putative phenomenon or if the claims advanced by proponents are controversial or contentious.
Reproducibility The degree to which the findings of a study can be reproduced by replication.
(see also: verification, Studies – Scientific or Empirical, statistical significance, experimental research, peer review, scientific approach, science, scientific methodology, statistic, Sample size error, sample bias, Margin of error, systematic evidence, anecdotal evidence, (conceptual) models, operational definition, critical thinking, theory (scientific), falsifiability, testability)
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