"a negative conclusion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a statement or idea that goes against or contradicts the main idea or thesis of a written work. Here is an example of using the phrase in a sentence: Despite the overwhelming evidence supporting the benefits of exercise, the author comes to a negative conclusion in their research paper, arguing that it has minimal impact on overall health.
The inevitable result is that many experiments come to a negative conclusion, or to the lack of a solid one.
The timing of unrelated decisions also can put a company's reputation at risk, especially if it causes a stakeholder group to jump to a negative conclusion.
Italian politicians had complained that S&P came to a negative conclusion about the country's planned austerity programme, even before details of the package were finalised.
Then he announced, "I'm going to call Dan Neil and say, 'What the fuck?' Starting with a negative conclusion and backfilling the facts is a classic dickhead move — and a classic human fallacy".
"It ought to be quite clear in the title or in the abstract that the paper arrived at a negative conclusion, lest the authors or researchers think they are getting positive data," Dr. Huth said.
Thus, an important editorial task would be to distinguish between a solid study that arrived at negative results and a weak paper that came to a negative conclusion because of bad research techniques.
As with any negative conclusion, this has to be carefully qualified.
This takes most commonly the form of attenuation of the exposure-response association such that there is a danger of a false negative conclusion [ 1, 2].
This illustrates that the use of non-invasive imaging to assess tumor response is important since evaluating reduction in tumor volume as an endpoint would have generated a false negative conclusion.
In 1955 the literary critic Roland Barthes reached a similarly negative conclusion, accusing Camus of offering readers an "antihistorical ethic".
When possible, he does this by a clever and economical method: he gives two triplets of terms, one of which makes the premises true and a universal affirmative "conclusion" true, and the other of which makes the premises true and a universal negative "conclusion" true.
