Sentences with phrase «so 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.

Not exact matches

I have advocated before that one way to mitigate problems with null - hypothesis significance testing is for editors of scientific journals to employ «results blind» decision making in determining whether to publish and make it be known that they are doing so.

So a reasonable null hypothesis is that reducing the spatial area in which such clouds reside will result in a near zero feedback, with the residual probably quite model and cloud property dependent.

I can't see how this new null makes any statistical sense until it has at least been quantified, so researchers know what they are comparing their results against.

We live in an insane age that punishes null results — all scientific research is currently geared towards three year renewable grant cycles so the entire concept of longer term research projects or goals is vanishing from science.

Thus, by using local trends, you are pulling for the null result you got, because the places that had hot outliers would have higher trends, so the hot outliers would appear smaller in your metric?

Some people (no link, sorry) have noted that the only experiments getting actual null results were done in vacuum or solid material (fiber)-- most experiments in air (or other gases) got some shift that correlated with interferometer position w.r.t. the celestial sphere, not the Earth coordinates, so that has kept speculation alive.