Providing
additional and expansive ideas, through the public presentation of negative results, also aids in expanding the discussion, provides new vistas and
perspectives, and assists those who wish to conduct similar experiments, with
valuable experimental signs of what not to do, aptly summarized by Pfeffer and Olsen [14]: «it only takes one counter observation to falsify it».
Yes, the administrator may provide
additional insights and a
valuable outside
perspective, but I believe that we're missing an opportunity to really change if we don't do an effective job of evaluating ourselves first.