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[–] chonomaiwokurae@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Proving that something doesn’t work can be valuable data, too. Especially in research close to industrial interests.. celebrate failures!

[–] drre@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it's more like "why can't i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what", when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost