To remain fit and healthy, we should all try to eat a balanced diet. This means that we need to eat foods from the five major food groups, meat and fish, fruit and vegetables, cereals, pasta and potatoes, dairy in appropriate proportions.
AQA Science: Glossary - Reproducible. A measurement is reproducible if the investigation is repeated by another person, or by using different equipment or techniques, and the same results are obtained. N.B. the same results implies identical, but in reality the same means that random error will still be present in the results.
This essay explores the importance and limits of reproducibility in scientific manuscripts. There may be no more important issue for authors and reviewers than the question of reproducibility, a bedrock principle in the conduct and validation of experimental science.