Selective Reporting of Results.

The Journal of Spurious Correlations
Qualitative and Quantitative Results in the Social Sciences

A group of social scientists in Europe and the US has established a new journal of negative and unpublishable results in the social sciences. The mission of The Journal of Spurious Correlations (JSpurC) is to provide a legitimate venue for exploring pure and applied methodological questions in the social sciences in the company of colleagues without fear of professional embarrassment or reprisal. While a number of the present organizers are political scientists, such an initiative may be relevant to other social science disciplines as well, and to a range of methodological approaches beyond the ‘quantitative.’

Why establish The Journal of Spurious Correlations?

A tremendous amount of potentially useful information is currently lost to the social sciences through selective reporting of results. The Journal of Spurious Correlations will represent the first systematic effort within the social sciences to address this very significant problem.

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http://www.jspurc.org/intro2.htm