"Negative" Results & the Journal of Spurious Correlations

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.’"