"Even a negative finding, a finding that something is not significant, could prove important," said Mr. Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, who teaches political science at the University of Akron.
It's hard to prove a negative; finding no evidence of suspicions and rumours isn't enough to positively prove that they didn't exist, although it does seem as if the Stella the Fella nickname is a modern invention.
"It's a big deal that a study is presenting a negative finding," said Dr. Eric Swanson, a plastic surgeon in Leawood, Kan., who was not involved in the current research.
However, in patients without shock or hypotension, a negative finding on echocardiography cannot rule out PE, due to the reported low negative predictive value of the test [9].
This is a negative finding in the sense that the rule's implementation will tend to favor the group that already saves more.
Also, the enzymatic method did not show any false positive ethanol in cases where the GLC method showed a negative finding.
When a clinical trial of an analgesic produces a negative finding, it is important to consider the influence (if any) of experimental error on the validity of that result.
However, a negative finding is insufficient to exclude such swelling, as the iliopsoas muscles can be obscured by bowel gas or be too deep to be scanned in some cases.
Exclusion of hepatitis E was indicated by a negative finding for all the 3 markers simultaneously.
They operationalize the "concurrency effect" as a test of whether concurrency practiced by an index case predicts their HIV status, and misinterpret a negative finding as evidence disconfirming the concurrency hypothesis.
