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I like that it says "studies show" that null results are rarely published. In fact, from my friends who are in the social scientists, that's just how the journa

I like that it says "studies show" that null results are rarely published. In fact, from my friends who are in the social scientists, that's just how the journals operate. Sure, null results are meaningless for complex hypotheses, but when testing a very narrow variable with a well-designed experiment, a null result is actually a very important result.

lutusp 12y ago
> Sure, null results are meaningless for complex hypotheses ... If that's true, if a hypothesis is vague enough to resist meaningful testing, then a positive result would be equally meaningless. But I see we are in agreement.