What's accidental scooping? Because of you mean they just happened to be doing the same thing, well, that sadly cannot be avoided ever.
Too early to be thinking about academic misconduct, need coffee! 

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Also to be clear, if somebody is working on the same thing sees you're doing something similar and uses something you came up, a method
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an analysis anything that's more yours than common knowledge, and publishes it without telling you... That's scooping & certainly malicious.
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Even if their excuse is "sorry I forgot you came up with that"... Well, if they are indeed sorry they publish a correction stating as such!
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This is exactly that situation in which a preprint can only strengthen your argument and demonstrate to others you came up with it.
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IMHO this is one of the rarest ways people scoop. Needs so much data and experimental overlap for them to steal your method of idea.
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Ah, def a field difference: in astro this is probably more common b/c there’s a lot of methodological overlap even for v diff sci results
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I addressed this in a side thread. Solved by preprints in many cases. That's certainly in part observational data vs exp data, like you say.
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I'm for example working on an big open observational dataset, I suppose I can say doing ML in polsci (not my field), and I'm completely
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