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Hey /sci/. Need some advice. I'm currently in uni and starting my first lab. What should I do if my lab results are completely fucked up? As in I can't reach a decent conclusion with the results I obtained due to some sort of error in the procedure.

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>> No.7546264
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7546264

>yfw you realize over half of phD work is irreproducable outside the lab

>> No.7546267

>>7546264
this tbh fam

>> No.7546277

>>7546263
The guy I had circuits and electronics with didn't even read any of our reports. He just checked if there were appropriate graphs and graded them based on how many graphs there were and if we did them on plotting paper by hand. I once gathered enough balls and wrote the lyrics of "ode to joy" in my report and I got a passing grade. I bragged about that and people started doing the same.

On the other hand, the TA I had physic labs with was so thorough that we had to come to him with every report and have a one on one talk with him about the lab and our results. If the result were funny, we had to redo the lab.

>> No.7546288

If results make up a portion of the grade, it is probably worth lying, in any way works best. Copy results, reverse engineer values, manually set llines of best fit, etc. To be honest at university no-one has ever cared too much about results, but skewing or retaking results in your fvour can be useful sometimes.

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>lab science