Comment on I have attempted science.

jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …because people don’t accept that it’s wrong? Or some other reason?

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  • jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess I should’ve clarified; negative results are incredibly hard to publish. Nobody cares if a reinforcement learning hypothesis didn’t work, its only worth publishing if it did work well.

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    • overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gotcha.

      I thought that was the norm in all academia these days? Can a physicist (or anyone from another field) publish results that didn’t go as expected and save future scientists some time?

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      • jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I know a good bit of micro biology, psychology, and medical trial fields can. But thats about the limit of my “other fields” knowledge.

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