> Nick and Andrew did a similar experiment, they found no effects whatsoever. > And so they send this to a journal and the response they got was, well, you kno

> Nick and Andrew did a similar experiment, they found no effects whatsoever. > And so they send this to a journal and the response they got was, well, you know, you probably wouldn't expect an effect because this is not fairly novel information to the students. So we are not going to publish this because it's not really surprising. I don't quite understand that example. If every one else in their papers indeed suggested that telling students of the cost should solve the issue, and everyone believed them, then how can it be claimed that the experiment results are not surprising. The whole point was to disprove what apparently was blindly accepted because of common sense; being then told that in fact the opposite is common sense seems like a slap in the face. I didn't read the paper, so maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure it's actually a good example for that journal. Had they done experiment in isolation with no preexisting notion or consensus of what might solve the graduation issue, maybe.