| Abstract: | Comments that in the March 1959 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Vol. 54, No, 285) an article appeared by Theodore D. Sterling, a psychologist, entitled "Publication Decisions and Their Possible Effects on Inferences Drawn from Tests of Significance -or Vice Versa." As the title suggests the author feels that negative experimental results are seldom published. He also feels that experiments are seldom replicated. The present author recounts the suggestion by Sterling that journals devoted to reporting experimental results include a section reserved for articles which present no evidence for rejecting the null hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
