> She probably will not publish this result because she thinks it is not interesting enough. Classic file-drawer problem in academic science.

It's truly insane that everyone in the academic class understands the fundamental problems of herding and sampling bias and yet every incentive is in place to do this.

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etrautmann 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Having lived this reality, people respond to incentives. Your have to very fundamentally re-architect the incentives and career progression in academia to make publication of null results more common. The other side of this is reducing the time and hassle of publication. Right now I’m unlikely to battle for 1.5-3 years to get something through peer review for a result that nobody will find interesting.

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cortesoft an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is exactly what the person you are replying to is saying; everyone knows it, but the people in charge of setting up the incentives still don’t seem interested in changing the incentives.

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anonym29 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>people respond to incentives

Careful, you're starting to sound dangerously close to an Austrian economist!

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	▲	pfdietz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." -- Charlie Munger

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bee_rider an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m not sure who the academic class is (are grad students, postdocs, and tenured professors really in the same class?).

Anyway, the people setting the incentives are the ones handing out the grants.