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Huge example of intellectual dishonesty in academia: you effectively can't publish negative results.
by ivankirigin 15y ago
Huge example of intellectual dishonesty in academia: you effectively can't publish negative results.
- tlb 15y agoI suspect the problem is not rejections, but that people don't bother submitting them because it's not exciting. Has anyone here tried hard to publish a negative result and had it consistently rejected?
- ivankirigin 15y agoYes, that the researchers don't push to publish them is what is dishonest.
- burgerbrain 15y agoIs it really feasible to publish everything? And if you do publish everything, then everything will be lost in a sea of noise... you'd need to create "ultra-publishing" to resolve that...
- jgamman 15y agothe exception is when the deviation from expectation is significant ie, 5-sigma certainty particles not conforming to speed of light limit would get a pretty quick acceptance.
- vph 15y agoYes you can. When the answer to a unsolved problem could be either positive or negative, you can always publish negative results. What you can't publish are things that are not novel and things that are worst than existing methods.