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You spend two years working on a scientific experiment and when you finally are finished, you discover that your original hypothesis was not correct and must be refuted. Does this make you a bad scientist? What happens next? Please explain in a paragraph or two.

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It doesn’t make you a bad scientist as a hypothesis isn’t meant to be accurate, it’s what you think will happen. Your experiment can be the opposite of your hypothesis as your hypothesis is not what you observed. For a scientist to be a good scientist, he or she needs to experience trial and error before succeeding.

A bad scientist would be someone who would ignore is thesis and not find the correct solution. A good scientist will conduct research and test to identify where there needs to be improvement.
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