[user32556]

IMO, nowadays top-tier conference paper tends to focus too much on telling an interesting story. This makes researchers only show the surprising result in the paper. The unsurprising one is hardly mentioned.

However, the uninteresting part would definitely help others to not make the same mistake. The uninteresting result is still result (and contribution), isn't it?

[shp0ngle]

Yeah, that's the TED Talk effect, as some people put it

You cannot make a TED Talk about something that people already know

[pbourke]

What if you presented it with a bunch of single-word slides and had a compelling frame? “What my 10 years among uncontacted tribes in the Amazon taught me about the boiling point of water”