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mil24havoc t1_iyw1c2s wrote

You should be a better scientist. Best papers shouldn't be awarded for performance, that would be bad science. Best papers are awarded for innovation and quality. Fixing your results is the responsible thing to do.

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42gauge t1_izye18i wrote

> Best papers shouldn't be awarded for performance, that would be bad science. Best papers are awarded for innovation and quality

But exceptionally good performance, whether real or fake, is usually used as a predictor for innovation and quality. If the authors hadn't made this mistake, this paper would have obviously been of higher quality - and yet, do you really think it would have stood out even more without that error?

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