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This exactly. I filled hundreds of pages of behavioral data during my PhD. Although I don’t know the exact numbers, I’d wager that my publications came from only 20-25 pages of data.

If you anticipate low success rates, you can find success either through luck or through diligent experimentation with an expectation of null results. Null results which, by the way, can often improve your odds of downstream success.


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