I wonder if there is a way to award points for 'effort' and 'ingenuity'. Maybe PhDs should be able to give out points there to offset the fact that most experi

I wonder if there is a way to award points for 'effort' and 'ingenuity'. Maybe PhDs should be able to give out points there to offset the fact that most experiments aren't going to show much. Maybe there's a correlation between what we recognize as 'thoughtful experiments' and 'good outcomes'. Or just some other measure other than 'non-nill results' otherwise everyone will be predisposed towards those.