#2020: Negative Results
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[Cueball is sitting in an office chair at a desk typing on a laptop computer. The following message is displayed above him:]
Dear Nature Magazine,
I found no evidence sufficient to reject the null hypothesis in any research areas because I spent the whole week playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
I'll send you another update next week!
[Caption below the panel:]
The push to publish negative results seems kinda weird, but I'm happy to go along with it.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:P.S. We're going to the beach this weekend, so I'm attaching my preregistration forms for that trip now, before we find out whether it produces any interesting results.