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Science moves forward when discoveries are replicated and reproduced. In general, the more frequently a given relationship is observed by independent scientists, the more trust we have that such a relationship truly exists in nature. Replication, the practice of independently implementing scientific experiments to validate specific findings, is the cornerstone of discovering scientific truth. Related to replication is reproducibility, which is the calculation of quantitative scientific results by independent scientists using the original datasets and methods. Reproducibility can be thought of as a different standard of validity from replication because it forgoes independent data collection and uses the methods and data collected by the original investigator (Peng et al., 2006). Reproducibility has become an important issue for more recent research due to advances in technology and the rapid spread of computational methods …