It’s actually a published problem 😅
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peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’m not a doctor, and I’m not a researcher in any field, but I do recall reading plenty of null studies when I had access to the catalogs.
Are publishers only publishing positive stories now?
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In my field they do publish results without success, but it must either be (a) something seminal in the field or (b) interesting in a notable way. General things aren’t going to have the juice to get through the review process. One exception to this is the shotgun method. If you’re testing a bunch of different things that get at the same question and they all miss, you might still get published, but that’s because it’s adjacent to (b).