New Site Idea
For the past couple of years I have been batting around an idea that my friend Clint gave me. When you want to do any research project, one of the big first steps is doing your review of the literature. No sense designing something from the ground up only to find out that someone has already “been there, done that.”
Depending on how you view it, you get lucky and there has been nothing done. You get to be the proud pioneer of an original idea that no one has yet succeeded in proving. However, just because you cannot find any published research is starting to mean much less. Most journals agree that publishing “successful” research gets the best return audience. By successful they mean proving the hypothesis correct.
This mean that a ton of equally valid research that failed to prove the experimental hypothesis stays in the dark. The much larger issue is the fact that this research has done a very important thing. It proved the null. Or that you are just as likely to get the same results by chance and there is not significant trend.
Therefore I will be slowly forming a new project called Null By Design.
After a site is actually created I will be attempting to find research from all those universities that was archived. Because no one should have to not prove the same hypothesis from scratch every time. The academic world has fallen back to a trend of not learning from its mistakes as publishers have exerted more control over time.
To those magazines and journals that give all the good press to proven experimental hypotheses I say — “Keep up the good work!” That research needs to get out to people. But give me all the leftovers, and let me make sure that new research students and professionals can work on avoiding pitfalls and fill your pages with better results!
So if you have research that “failed” or are linked to an institution goto my contact page and get in touch. We need to talk!
