There should be more value placed in publishing things that didn’t work as hypothesized. That way scientists in the future can know if a particular approach just doesn’t work.
Something like this, but completely normalized in the scientific world, where it’s ok to publish attempts, whether they succeed or not.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right plant has had a rough life
danc4498@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You ever just have to sneeze but can’t?
Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Looks like they put off the science fair project for too long and had to throw this little number together the weekend before. Been there, I still remember mine: what genre of music will cats like? Hypothesis: classical. Result: hard rock. Sampled 4 cats over 5 genres, took an hour. Methodology was crap. Sample size was crap. It was a non-experiment that scraped a “you tried” grade