Interesting. Presumably if Bessel never got the results he wanted, he could (assuming he’s honest) continue until the negative data was enough to convince himself that he was wrong. Depending on his prior that might not happen, he could run out of money or motivation before he gave up and published a negative result. Avoiding this seems related to issues about publishing negative results and timely reporting of raw data.
With regards to the biased reporting, I’ll just mention that we would have to adjust for known bias wether we were using Bayesian or frequentist methods.
Interesting. Presumably if Bessel never got the results he wanted, he could (assuming he’s honest) continue until the negative data was enough to convince himself that he was wrong. Depending on his prior that might not happen, he could run out of money or motivation before he gave up and published a negative result. Avoiding this seems related to issues about publishing negative results and timely reporting of raw data.
With regards to the biased reporting, I’ll just mention that we would have to adjust for known bias wether we were using Bayesian or frequentist methods.