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# Why bother?

## The private payoff

**_You_ are your first replicator...**

### Efficiency, not just compliance

Good habits from day 1 pay off long before the journal asks:

- Fewer, *shorter* trips to the RDC
- Re-runs that "**just work**" instead of yet more debugging
- Less time lost when an *RA leaves*

### Fewer, shorter RDC trips

- Time spent in RDCs is often disruptive
  - Cross-campus, or even cross-country, *travel*
  - Constraining, **unfamiliar** environment
- *Students*: You will graduate, and work somewhere else!
- Efficiency in code structure and re-running code is **time saved** for debugging

### Surviving RA turnover

- The student who wrote `merge_v3_final_FINAL.do` **quit academia**
- _Every_ student will graduate!
- Coordination **across time and people** is aided by good reproducibility