Topic: new scientific journal trend: Journals of JACK SHIT
Sheila LaBoof started this discussion 6 years ago#91,213
There's concern that there is not enough publicity for valid scientific findings where, in the parlance, they "failed to reject the null hypothesis" at some statistical level of significance, that is, the finding was JACK SHIT. The standard is to write the null hypothesis as the less interesting of two possibilities: no effect, no difference, that kind of thing, versus effect found, difference found. People tend to publicize there findings when they are more exciting, and journals might not bother with fine but dull findings of JACK SHIT.
To the rescue is a growing trend to recognize the dull results more. Here is one journal specifically for that purpose: http://www.jasnh.com/
Ananthanarayanan M R joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 31 minutes later[^][v]#1,037,911
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,037,918
I fully support this endeavor to make science less interesting. If science starts looking too interesting, then any silly person on the street is likely to put on a lab coat and run around cosplaying a scientist for the press.
Keep it boring I say! At least it keeps out the riffraff.