But what actually happens is you do something you read in a paper, then you fail, get super frustrated, publish a paper titled “Doing X doesn’t lead to Y”, and several people suddenly start telling you they all knew that but never bothered to tell anyone.
But what actually happens is you do something you read in a paper, then you fail, get super frustrated, publish a paper titled “Doing X doesn’t lead to Y”, and several people suddenly start telling you they all knew that but never bothered to tell anyone.
Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!!
That’s like 3/4 - 7/8 of science, the being wrong part!
+ Normalize and incentivize attempting to replicate existing findings!
With these two recommendations we’d speed up discovery exponentially.