Sentences with phrase «null results»

«There are a decent number of null results,» she says.

However, my husband is quick to point out the other side, there are a number of studies finding null results between the tart berry and prevention of urinary tract infections.

If she included the other random - assignment studies, her readers would learn that only one shows null results, and the rest demonstrate significant benefits, at least for African American students.

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....

Over the past several years the two groups have achieved broadly comparable null results.

That's why, despite 45 years of null results, many of us are more convinced than ever that we are not alone.

If they gave out Nobel Prizes for null results, these guys would be near the top of the list.

«Expect that you will get null results and collect the data that allows you to explain it,» Hill urges.

Moreover, although many have lamented the shortage of interventions with positive results in the What Works Clearinghouse, even null results represent progress.

Farah isn't surprised at my own null results.

«This is science, so null results about our nearest neighboring Sun - like stars are just as valuable as positive ones, although they don't generate a press release,» says Jared Males, an astronomer at the University of Arizona who is working on image - processing algorithms for Project Blue.

One of the latest null results in the search for WIMPs came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty — 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.

It delivered a high - quality null result, the scientists» way of saying that they found exactly zero evidence for a great many of the hypothesized or allegedly detected dark matter particles.

The first null result this summer came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a metric ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty − 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant, water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers under the Black Hills of South Dakota.

First, I don't know of anyone who seriously dismissed the possibility of extrasolar planets based on earlier null results.»

First, we provide a fail - safe number, which estimates the number of unretrieved studies averaging null results needed to bring the overall combined effect size at a non-significant level (Rosenthal 1991).

Similar studies of teacher merit pay have shown null results in New York City and Chicago.

Despite five decades of null results and chronic underfunding, he and his colleagues are more upbeat than ever.

Over the past five decades, numerous HVP models have been developed and implemented, albeit with modest or even null results, according to meta - analyses and comprehensive reviews.

Finally, for the statistically significant associations of breastfeeding with later cognition, 95 % CIs were narrow and exclude a null result, but the lower confidence limits include values with little clinical importance.

The fear of a null result is sickeningly familiar to most science graduate students.

«Nonetheless, a null result is significant as it changes the landscape of the field by constraining models for what dark matter could be beyond anything that existed previously.»

Taken together, these two null results are a double - edged sword for dark matter.

One null result, of course, did not rid the universe of the ether.

Despite the null results, Moulton thinks scientists should keep studying psi.

The woman's three sisters had Down syndrome, and she had been terrified of passing on the disorder but got a null result.

In what's been called the most famous failed experiment ever, their null result suggested that there was something slightly wrong with the theory.

On the other hand, studies that find no correlation — negative or null results — are tough to find (if they're published at all).

Luckily, there's now an app for finding those null results: BioNOT, a new search engine developed by biomedical informatician Hong Yu and graduate student Shashank Agarwal at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

«Null results are usually not very interesting, but in this case, it is.»

This null result prompts the question of what — if anything — was wrong with the original paper.

Their null result prompts the question of what — if anything — was wrong with the original paper.

Journals should also devote more space to publish both replication studies and null results, the group says.

Drever has carried out experiments in a number of areas of physics, including spectroscopic measurements to look for anisotropy of mass and space - his null results providing accurate confirmations of both special and general relativity.

His interest was further piqued following the null results from other bar experiments, and he then spent an entire summer in a little room in a temporary building on the MIT campus working through his interferometer calculations.

Benjamin Solomon, MBBS, PhD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, said the null results of this study are quite clear, but there remains no obvious way to choose which patients should receive cetuximab.

The fact that stretching and yoga turned out to produce the same results should really be viewed as a null result.

Therefore, their null result speaks more of adaptation effects rather than baseline sleep.

Ten percent might even be a high estimate, considering that researchers often don't publish studies with null results.

«The effects on achievement from these programs are quite mixed; some programs rendered positive results, others null results.

The null results from most studies contrast with some recent evidence suggesting that programs that combine value - added with other measures of performance, or which use only other measures, can lead to improvement.

In another blog post, AU does point to the one gold standard study that found a null result, a reexamination of the Peterson / Howell study of New York's private scholarship program.