I strongly believe in the validity of my hypothesis (which every experimentalist does I guess), but I can’t find an explanation for the outliers, or the possible explanations are too many. Can I still publish with five good data points? How should I deal with the other five? I assume it’s unethical to not report them, right?
That was a crazy read
Jfc. Thank gods my anti-intellectual “all scientists are paid lackeys of our corrupt government” family members don’t see this shit. Holy hell is this an embarrassing read.
It’s disturbing that an academic, presumably a PhD candidate, has to ask this. Either they’re scared of the PI, or the whole department is fucked.
As it so happens, forensics experts DO say things like that in court all of the time.
IDK about it court, but they definitely say it on forensic TV shows
