How do we account for unusual experimental results?

1 Answer
Jun 26, 2017

How would we know?

Explanation:

You are the one who is performing the experiment. You have, or will have, the experimental data. We could possibly suggest reasons why the data are skewed in one scenario, but we need the data first. If the experiment continues to yield unexpected results, you ask a collaborator to repeat the experiment, and then, jointly, you review the results...