A Case for Negative-Result Tracks
We argue that venues should offer an explicit track for well-designed studies that do not find the expected effect, and outline reviewing criteria that focus on design and power rather than outcome.
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We argue that venues should offer an explicit track for well-designed studies that do not find the expected effect, and outline reviewing criteria that focus on design and power rather than outcome.
We report experience building perturbation suites — rephrased instructions, reordered tool lists, noisy outputs — for three deployed agents, and summarise which perturbations revealed real failures and which only added cost.