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RE: Forensic Approach to Cheaters
I really like how you merge topics in a single post. The intro on image compression could have been a post on its own!
I have the chance to work in a field where experiments are always coming as pairs (or more) so that any discovery could be at least reproduced one. Consequently, it was hard to me to understand, in the beginning at least, why such things could not be done in other fields.
The lack of basic mathematical rigor is outstanding. What makes me sad the most is the lack of imagination for how to perform experiments.
A friend of mine that is an I.M. specialist recently asked me to write a paper with him, I told him yes. I made a pre-print proposal. Told him 5 different ways to test the same event and he told me they were not standard and excessively complicated -Of course but that's ok, we just need to develop the protocols from ground zero. Don't worry I'll do the heavy lifting-
He told me it was to much work for something that for the way I presented it had too many ways to be proven wrong. He said: can't you make it less mathy, more ambiguous?
-No, I'm not a philosopher.- he wanted for us to publish the pre-print as a full article without any experimentation! I had to decline any collaboration.
:'(
I am chocked. After, we should not be surprized when the general audience complains about science!