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I occasionally wish there was a Journal of Negative Results. However, there is a real problem in that it is nearly impossible to properly interpret a negative r
by joeyo 18y ago
I occasionally wish there was a Journal of Negative Results. However, there is a real problem in that it is nearly impossible to properly interpret a negative result. Something might not work because you have a sloppy experimental technique or because you have a typo in the implementation of your algorithm.
- waldrews 18y agoThere are real current efforts to create such publications. This is quite relevant in pharmacology and other areas where biostatistics is applied, since there are often fewer incentives to publish the results of, say, a drug trial that fails to find a significant effect. Hence, The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine (yes, it is actually called that): http://www.jnrbm.com/ http://www.jnrbm.com/