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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!!

That’s like 3/4 - 7/8 of science, the being wrong part!

[–] livus@mander.xyz 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!

+ Normalize and incentivize attempting to replicate existing findings!

With these two recommendations we'd speed up discovery exponentially.