It is common to publish researches that supports by a positive results, but can you rely on the dissemination of negative results also ? I am happy to see your opinions dears
Research may be on any topics that may result positive or negative or sometimes no outcome. Negative results are also the part of a research.
The researcher should expect to fail several times before finding success. As an inventor, Thomas Edison made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 10,000 times?" he famously answered, "I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." Of course, Edison eventually succeeded and changed history".
Thus, "negative results in research" will give to you good understanding about you discovered incorrect ways in order to resolve your problem correctly which is again an outcome of research.
A research is a research regardless of the positivity or negativity of the end result.
Negative results will prevent future researchers to stop considering that part while conducting an experiment. How can you succeed without failing repeatedly ? We need to sort out several negative search results to finally get the desired end result.
Negative results will notify the other researchers , whose working on the same procedures, and may they will avoid their methodology to get another results.
This is one of benefits of negative results of searches.
Negative results could be addressed as either some problems in the data or processing stage. However, if all the stages are okay, there should be reasonable explanation that can not be caught in the research. I think such result also a finding in research. Regards
Yes, it help to find out mistakes, after improvement we are marching towards positive results, but it demands lot of patience, hard work, digestion of failure,
Negative results are useful because it can clue readers as to what direction they ought not to go in. For example in the paper Article Thermal Degradation of Polyisobutylene- Effect of Sample Siz...
negative results were obtained first and then the reviewer asked to extend the scope of the investigation which was done and a paper was published as cited.