One of my favorite quirky blog spots--the Journal of Spurious Correlations--links to a recent WSJ piece on the increasing scholarly popularity of "negative findings." (For anyone with a few minutes to kill over the weekend, it's reprinted here.)
For those interested, the self-styled mission of The Journal of Spurious Correlations (JSpurC)
is to "provide a legitimate venue for exploring pure and applied methodological
questions in the social sciences in the company of colleagues without fear of
professional embarrassment or reprisal. While a number of the present
organizers are political scientists, such an initiative may be relevant to other
social science disciplines as well, and to a range of methodological approaches
beyond the ‘quantitative.’"
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