Question

If a hypothesis is incorrect, which of the following would be the next step?

Answer

Refine the hypothesis and repeat the appropriate steps of the scientific method.

Change the data to match your hypothesis.

Throw out the idea completely.

none of the above

Answer 1

Refine the hypothesis and repeat the appropriate steps of the scientific method.

Answer 2

The correct answer is Refine the hypothesis and repeat the appropriate steps of the scientific method.

You take the results that you gathered and based on them you create a new and improved hypothesis that you then try to prove. If that fails, you then take the new results and make a new hypothesis, until you prove something or find that your hypothesis is truthful.