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In THEORY yes, but in practice, there are not a ton of journals I think that will actually publish well done research that does not come to some interesting conclusion and find some p<.05. So....



Plenty of journals do, just mostly in fields that don't emphasize P-values. Chemistry and materials science tend to focus on the raw data in the form of having the instrument output included, and an interpretation in the results section.

The peaks in your spectra, the calculation results, or the microscopy image either support your findings or they don't, so P-values don't get as much milage. I can't remember the last time I saw a P-value in one of those papers.

This does create a problem similar to publishing null result P-values, however: if a reaction or method doesn't work out, journals don't want it because it's not exciting. So much money is likely being wasted independently duplicating failed reactions over and over because it just never gets published.


That is what this article is about, changing the expectations of researchers and journals to be willing to publish and read research without p values.


I see. Thanks for clarifying.




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