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Journal publication incentives systematically bias the scientific record: journals prefer papers that reject the null hypothesis, use big datasets, and show big effect sizes, so significant findings failing those criteria may simply be ignored.

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Scientific journals typically prefer to publish papers that reject the null hypothesis, use big datasets, and demonstrate big effect sizes. Significant findings that do not meet these criteria may simply be ignored.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021), II. Decentralization of Science, p. 4
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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