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orbat · 4681 days ago · link · · parent · post: New Evidence Knocks Down Daryl Bems Claim of Psychic Proof
I wonder why journals don't want to publish negative results? As far as I can see they're just about as valuable as positive ones.
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.