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grue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is why people need to publish negative results: so future generations of PhDs don’t think their ideas that don’t work are “novel.”
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grue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is why people need to publish negative results: so future generations of PhDs don’t think their ideas that don’t work are “novel.”
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Yeah but then you get branded as the person that publishes negative results and that complicates things, and the politics around that. Its something only well established people in the field have the luxury of doing, unfortunately.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The thing is negative results are often the most valuable. If a hypothesis is disproven, it’s gone. The search space is reduced and people don’t need to waste their time with it.
All those glory hunters are the problem.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yes they are but also the general attitude and politics at play just don’t allow for anyone but a well established name to publish negative results and still be taken as a serious researcher.
I agree a 100% about how valuable it is in reducing the search space.