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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by gmueckl on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:47AM (#18369057)
... Except that Edison succeeded.

What kind of failures should we celebrate? There are two kinds that I can see: a failure to produce a result because of a lack of skill or knowledge and a failure to produce a result because of a demonstrable or provable reason. The last one is actually a success because that kind of failure produces new knowledge. But we have a culture in far too many fields where this is seen as not publishable.

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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by Fomite on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:04AM (#18369099)
I have always wanted a 'Journal of Cautionary Tales', for studies that were well thought out, approached correctly, and just didn't work.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by zamalek on Saturday November 03, 2018 @04:34AM (#18369272)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Edison

He eventually succeeded.

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