• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    This is why people need to publish negative results: so future generations of PhD students don’t think their ideas that don’t work are “novel.”

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      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.