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Nobody ever won a Nobel prize for a null result... So it's not entirely without reason that people would prefer to get positive results.
by Retra 8y ago
Nobody ever won a Nobel prize for a null result... So it's not entirely without reason that people would prefer to get positive results.
- mbb70 8y agoWhile of course true, there have been a few groundbreaking null results such as the Michelson–Morley experiment.
- evanb 8y agoMichelson did win the Nobel prize, though the citation reads "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid", so not explicitly for the null result.