Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Welcome to the first monthly edition of Null and Noteworthy. We’ve doubled the newsletter’s frequency to deliver more notable null results and replications direct to your inbox. Thanks, as always, for your feedback, and please continue to send your thoughts, ideas, interesting studies and cat photos to laura@spectrumnews.org. Let’s dive in. […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio As Null and Noteworthy enters its second year, I’m refocusing on its purpose — and I came across the perfect tweet to express it, courtesy of University of Westminster psychologist Samuel Westwood: Am I doing it right? pic.twitter.com/SpnVEpnfT0 — Sam Westwood (@westwoodsam1) January 28, 2022 Fortunately, many replications and null findings […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Last month, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) met for the second time this year. Part of their discussion concerned the choices for their Progress Summary, a list of studies made available to policy makers to depict “groundbreaking and significant advances” in this area. This gave rise to an important question: […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio In July, psychologist Nichola Raihani tweeted that her paper on social anxiety had been rejected with a zero result. In a single sentence review, one reviewer pointed out “the lack of significant results”, she wrote, and recommended submission to a more specialized journal. “I thought I would tweet it mostly because […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio The May issue of this newsletter drew some important feedback from Jacqueline Crawley, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute. In an email to Spectrum, she pointed out that many published results in autism research cannot be replicated but remain popular after an initial splash in the literature […]
