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Which is the most ethical response if an experiment fails to confirm a hypothesis?

revise the hypothesis and develop a new experiment to test it.

perform the experiment again until it confirms the hypothesis.

publish the data without any conclusions.

alter the data so that they conform to what we already know.

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The most ethical response if an experiment fails to confirm a hypothesis is to revise the hypothesis and develop a new experiment to test it. The correct answer is A. 
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