#Kolumne
„Ich habe nicht versagt – ich habe nur 10.000 Wege gefunden, die nicht funktionieren.“
Schon T. A. Edison wusste: Auch negative Ergebnisse bringen Erkenntnis. Warum aber tun sich Forschende bis heute schwer damit, Nullresultate zu veröffentlichen? Eine neue Umfrage von Springer Nature zeigt: Zwischen Einsicht und Handeln klafft eine erstaunlich große Lücke. Mehr dazu von Ralf Neumann: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3396.php

#Laborjournal #Lifesciences #Forschung #NullResults #PublicationBias

🌍📚 #Munin2025 Abstract Spotlight 📚🌍
Samuel Winthrop on "The positivity trap" 🔍 Why publishing null results matters, survey insights & steps to boost transparency in research. 💡✨

🔗 https://doi.org/10.7557/5.8236
#OpenScience #NullResults #ResearchIntegrity

Great job by Lucia Coll, a student working in my group. Lucia's #scicomm video about why #nullresults are interesting made it to the jury mentions of the national science communication competition #fastforwardscience in Germany. Check out the video here! https://www.instagram.com/p/DIgx4cNtWo0/?hl=en

more about the competition here: https://fastforwardscience.de/en/2025/08/young-scientist-award-short-shortlist/

Do reflection tests impact philosophical thinking?

I found 10 #nullResults of taking reflection tests before (vs. after) making decisions about #philosophy: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8sdm_v5

Since Analysis accepted that paper, #xPhi got another null #replication: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12558

PS: I'm sympathetic to those short on time or caught up in job changes. But those pointing to #nullresults didn't understand the point of #preregistration. Those whose submissions were rejected by journals could still share the results as #preprints.

PS: I'm sympathetic to those short on time or caught up in job changes. But those pointing to #nullresults didn't understand the point of #preregistration.

Those whose submissions were rejected by journals could still share the results as #preprints.

#statstab #238 Bridging null hypothesis testing and estimation

Thoughts: An overview of the ways you can claim "no effect" under a bayesian framework.

#bayesian #bayesfactors #nullresults #noeffect #equivalencetests #equivalence #jasp #r

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c7b45

#statstab #236 Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results

Thoughts: A bayesian way to investigate "no effect": Bayes Factors. Cool guide on how to think about priors (post hoc even).

#priors #bayesfactors #nullresults #equivalence #nhbt

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00781/full

#statstab #205 Equivalence Tests Using {marginaleffects}

Thoughts: Easily testing for "no effect" is important. Here's a tutorial by @carlislerainey using @VincentAB r pkg.

#equivalencetests #equivalence #TOST #marginaleffects #tutorial #nullresults #r

https://www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2023-08-18-equivalence-tests/

#statstab #199 Mixed model equivalence test using R and PANGEA

Thoughts: While there are easier ways to compute #EQ tests for such models now, it is nice to see how you'd do so manually.

#equivalencetests #NHST #mixedeffects #r #stats #nullresults

https://pedermisager.org/blog/mixed_model_equivalence/

#statstab #166 Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results

Thoughts: Not sure how to set more meaningful priors for your Bayes Factors? This paper has a guidance. Great for simple designs.

#bayesian #bayes #bayesfactors #nullresults #nhst

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00781/full

A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just-make-it-stop-when-will-we-say-that.html
#research #nullresults #laterality #handedness #publicationbias

#agu23 attendees! As you submit your abstracts, remember: Results offer valuable lessons, even if they are not what you were hoping to get.

Embrace your null-results too! Check out our null-results reports in our type of publications for more information:

https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/author-guidelines/#publication-types

#seismology #earthquakescience #openscience #openaccess #diamondopenaccess #peerreview #AGU2023 #failedexperiment #nullresults #Scientificjournals

🚨My new #openaccess paper is out. I explore the effect of uncertainty framing (epistemic or aleatory) on veracity judgements. The "negative" results indicate that phrasing the judgement as "how SURE are you... " vs "how LIKELY is it... " does *not* impact veracity judgments.

#equivalencetests #nullresults #deception #bayesian

Zloteanu, M. (2023). Uncertain Veracity Judgements: Does the Framing of the Question Influence Deception Detection? Experimental Results, 1-16
https://doi.org/10.1017/exp.2023.9