Non-significant results

In the research world putting a lot of effort into planning a study, collecting the data, and then scoring it and doing the analysis is what we do. Research takes a lot of work and a lot of time if you want to do it right. When you have a lot of effort tied up into this process and the theory that you have built around the hypothesis that you are testing then non-significant results are not what you want to find after all that work. Out of all of the lines of research that I am working on the one that is most important to me involves working memory and executive functioning. Three studies that I have conducted in the last almost 2 years have taken between a month to collect and a year and a half depending on the project. In the last 3 months they have all wrapped up and repeatedly the analysis has come back with findings that I am not happy about. No significant difference!

Then again all data tells us something, even if it not what we want to hear. Atleast for now I have a alternative hypothesis that might just have a decent impact on the field.