PEDIATRICS Vol. 97 No. 1 January 1996, pp. 70
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THE FILE DRAWER EFFECT

Statistics can tell us when published numbers truly point to the probability of a negative result, even though we, in our hopes, have mistakenly conferred a positive interpretation. But statistics cannot rescue us . . . when we publish positive results and consign our probable negativities to nonscrutiny in our file drawers.