I'm writing my PhD thesis. I used a number of statistical tests and tools to test my hypothesis. Only one test was able to answer my research question while the rest (3 tests) couldn't. If I report the results of the tests which failed to answer my research question, it becomes a large chunk of tables and graphs. My query is whether I should report all my efforts that I put in the analyses or should I report only the ones which could answer my research question.
Even tests that didn't answer your question are important because at least you discovered that, so put them in
@ Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman : Thank you. I too had the same feeling.
It is a more generic question. There could be various reasons as to why the intermediate results are negative. However, they shouldn't contradict the key conclusions of the work. Every research often has negative results with respect to main work conclusions. The only case when negative results should be published, if they answer a real important scientific question, and get along with the general subject matter of an article or thesis. To do it just for the sake of showing how much work the author has done is a big NOOOO.
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