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Re:Why we should love null results by xapata on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:23PM (#14482469)
A "failed" experiment does not "disprove" a hypothesis, it only provides evidence which is not consistent with the hypothesis.
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Re:Why we should love null results by contravariant on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:50PM (#14484807)
Actually not even that, it provides evidence which is consistent with the null hypothesis.
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