evgenit comments on The Stable State is Broken - Less Wrong

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Comment author: evgenit 13 March 2012 02:53:58PM 0 points [-]

Replications make much more sense as an example. You could also add the file-drawer problem in research. Why do we not see studies that do not find anything? Because there is no prestige in publishing them. (Some journals do try to correct for this, but they have to explicitly do that)