A fundamental norm of science is that its findings are common property of the scientific community and that scientific progress relies on open communication and sharing. Yet all too often, journal editors and reviewers reject papers that have posed important questions and used appropriate methods, but whose results are not statistically significant or are deemed unsurprising or “uninteresting”. This publication bias distorts our understanding of the world by sharing only part of the story behind important questions, many of which have real-world policy implications.
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Source: Phys.org