Timeline for My PhD research has a negative outcome -- how can I still graduate with it?
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| Oct 9, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | Theses and dissertations are by definition published. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 12:18 | answer | added | Zach Mierzejewski | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | See academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30995/… | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 20:31 | comment | added | somerandomdude | @MikeyMike, I'm in my fourth year. The bulk of my work has this approach in it although some of my work may not be affected by the errors. The more significant parts of my research have definitely been affected though. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 20:25 | vote | accept | somerandomdude | ||
| Sep 24, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | Coder | Negative results are motivation in research, at least I feel so. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | Nikey Mike | How much time you spend on your PhD?Did you focus only on this particular approach, or you have tried another directions? | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 8:50 | answer | added | TheWass | timeline score: 38 | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 1:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/779496186596188160 | ||
| Sep 24, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | somerandomdude | Yes. It is only in his thesis (he never published any papers). I would actually like to focus on that a bit in my thesis. I guess I'm a bit worried about how my advisor would react. I haven't told him about my discovery yet and given his lack of command of the material, and the high opinion he has of the other student, I'm afraid he will think I am utilizing his method incorrectly. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 23:29 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 43 | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 22:50 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | If I understand correctly, you've found that an algorithm that is in the literature (at least in the previous student's thesis) sometimes fails to work. It seems to me that this information, amplified to show when the algorithm works and when it doesn't, and to explain exactly what goes wrong, would be a reasonable body of research. Whether it's enough for your thesis is, of course, for your adviser to say. It would be even better if you could repair the faulty algorithm. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 22:17 | history | asked | somerandomdude | CC BY-SA 3.0 |