Heads I Win, Tails Don’t Count: Negative Results, Open Data, and the Curious World of Research Publication

May 14, 2018

In Tom Stoppard’s famous absurdist drama Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (well, famous, at any rate, to people who like absurdist drama) the first act opens with the title characters betting on a coin toss. Rosencrantz is quite happy with how this has been going: he is betting on heads, and the toss has indeed …