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Health
Why negative results are worthy of publication
Anees Chagpar By Anees Chagpar "Fail early, fail often" - that's what they teach you in business school. Sadly, most physicians and medical researchers fail to see value in failure, and often shirk away from experiments that don't go the way they had expected, or trials that yield negative results. Indeed, such a bias is propagated in the medical literature. The goal of research, however, should not be simply to find statistical significance in the questions we ask, but rather to ask significant questions and report the answers we find. When my colleagues and I first started thinking about how we could improve upon margin positivity rates after breast conserving surgery for breast cancer, we
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