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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by xjlin0 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:16AM (#27246738)
It's harder to publish negative results.
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by jhgb on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:23AM (#27246815)
Even good negative results? If it's a problem to publish a negative result debunking an award-winning paper, then that is a problem.
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by gibba999 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:36PM (#27250867)
Yes, and in most cases, no one will cite negative results. The positive results continue to be cited even long after debunked.

This is an example which did get cites:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1539-6053.20...

But despite the high visibility, you can see the large number of papers published based on the original myth.

And this refutation doesn't have great methodology (but other ones do). It's mostly cited due to strong language used.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by carlmr on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:20AM (#27247362)
Hence the reproducibility crisis.
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