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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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Inadequate keeping of laboratory notes?
Does "inadequate keeping of laboratory notes" mean "insufficient preservation of lab notes (diary-like that wrote down your experiments)?
Background info:
Underlying these issues, often, is sloppiness, whether in the handling of data, in their analysis, or in the inadequate keeping of laboratory notes. As a result, the conclusions of such papers can seem misleadingly robust. Another contributory factor lies in selection bias behind the data presented, whether implicit because the experiment was not randomized or blinded, or explicit in the deliberate selection of data that, usually with honest good intentions, are judged to be representative. (This is not to say that randomizing and blinding is always required, but more is needed than currently occurs.)
Background info:
Underlying these issues, often, is sloppiness, whether in the handling of data, in their analysis, or in the inadequate keeping of laboratory notes. As a result, the conclusions of such papers can seem misleadingly robust. Another contributory factor lies in selection bias behind the data presented, whether implicit because the experiment was not randomized or blinded, or explicit in the deliberate selection of data that, usually with honest good intentions, are judged to be representative. (This is not to say that randomizing and blinding is always required, but more is needed than currently occurs.)
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The researchers do not make adequate records of their lab work. In this case "keeping" refers to the creation and maintenance of the notes, not to their preservation. g.
- The researchers do not make adequate records of their lab work.
- In this case "keeping" refers to the creation and maintenance of the notes, not to their preservation.
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The researchers do not make adequate records of their lab work. In this case "keeping" refers to the creation and maintenance of the notes, not to their preservation. It is a special sense of "keep" (e.g. see sense 15 at http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/keep).
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