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28 July 2016
An earlier version of the graphic ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis’ inadvertently switched the labels for ‘Don’t know’ and ‘No, there is no crisis’. The labels are now with the correct percentages.
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Baker, M. 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature 533, 452–454 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/533452a
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