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Very, very few of them are negative results. People just don't write those papers.
by robotresearcher 11y ago
Very, very few of them are negative results. People just don't write those papers.
- zootar 11y agoMost of them are negative results, though usually not overtly presented as such. In my experience, it's extremely rare for a researcher to throw away months of hard work because the result is null. They almost always find a way to augment it or spin it, write up the paper with the phrase "more research is needed" in the conclusion, and submit to a mediocre venue.
- robotresearcher 11y agoCan you give an example, because I have seen very few papers with negative or 'null' results. I'm not even sure what 'null' results means.
- zootar 11y agoNull means "without value, effect, consequence, or significance; being or amounting to nothing". Google "reproducibility crisis", "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by Ionnadis, "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Gelman.