Publication Bias (or, Why You Can’t Trust Any of the Research You Read)

• The problem is that if you have collected a whole bunch of data and you don’t find anything or at least nothing really interesting and new, no journal is going to publish it.
• So if you, as a researcher, don’t find anything counterintuitive that disconfirms prevailing assumptions, you are usually not even going to bother writing it up. 

Publication Bias (or, Why You Can’t Trust Any of the Research You Read)