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Suppose in one experiment in a series you found no difference in your participants' responses to the levels of your independent variable. You suspect that the levels you chose were too close together. So you redo the experiment with appropriate levels. It would be ethical to

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leave the first experiment

Step-by-step explanation:

In simple words, if the experiment that is done earlier have resulted in no conclusion and the researcher is using new variables then he or she should leave the prior experiment and should not include any data or micro conclusions from it.

Adding it to the report would result in incorrect conclusions that can hinder or deviate the studies that might be performed from the experiment in the future.

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