Moreover, although many have lamented the shortage of interventions with positive results in the What Works Clearinghouse,
even null results represent progress.
Not exact matches
But if you look at 50,
even if you don't find anything, that
null result still says something very interesting about whether or not life is rare out there....
Such calculations generally produce a P value — the probability of obtaining the observed data (or
results even more extreme) if there is no real effect (the
null hypothesis).
Ten percent might
even be a high estimate, considering that researchers often don't publish studies with
null results.
When we expect the
null hypothesis will not be rejected
even if it's wrong, what conclusions can be drawn from a
result which fails to reject the
null?