Somehow I doubt you'd say this if the results came out the other way.
Somehow I doubt you'd say this if the results came out the other way.
Correct. If the results came out the other way, I would instead say "I'm surprised!" But I would never have gotten the opportunity because those who did the study would have declined to publish. Under that hypothetical, even though I would suspect intellectual dishonesty in their decision not to publish, it is plausible that flawed methods would have been the correct explanation for the result.