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b_b  ·  4694 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Evidence Knocks Down Daryl Bems Claim of Psychic Proof
I think its because although negative results are obviously sometimes very important and interesting, they're not very exciting. I would suppose that there aren't that many negative results studies even being submitted for publication, not necessarily that journals won't publish them. No graduate student wants to write a thesis about what didn't happen. The one place you will find a lot of negative results studies in in clinical trials, where the results are necessarily going to be reported about anything that happened, positive or negative.