Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.” (Text 3. 2015. 英一)
impel/ imˈpel / v.促使;驱策;迫使
board / bɔ:d / n.(公司或其他机构的)董事会,委员会,理事会
motivate / ˈməutiveit / v.成为…的动机;是…的原因;激励
drive / draiv / n.驱动;推动;迫使
reproducibility / riprə,dju:sə'biliti / n.再现性;
再生性当被问及是否因为某些特定的论文而促成了这次改变,麦克纳特说:“‘统计委员会’的创建是受对科学研究中统计和数据分析应用的广泛关切的驱动,也是《科学》为提升其发表研究的可复制性的全面努力的一部分。”