Case #2
Mohammad is doing a research study for his earth science class. The object is to measure and make a plot of the altitude of the sun at noon over a four-month period. He collects data every third day. At the end of the four months Mohammad has six missing data points because cloudy
weather on those days prevented him from making the necessary measurements. He decides to estimate the correct data points for the missing days and simply include them in both his table of data and his graph.
1. Did Mohammad's action violate any principle of scientific ethics? Explain.
2. What other options did Mohammad have?
3. If you were Mohammad, what would you have done?

the scientific method is a set of rules and processes to ensure that an investigation is correct and is not influenced by the prejudices of the researcher

1) Science is based on experimental facts, with these facts it performs, tables, graphs, it postulates principles and laws, therefore it is not correct to include values that have not been measured experimentally.

2) In this experiment there are several observations

Make the graph without these points, which are very few, has 34 experimental points and only 6 missing, this represents a small fraction

% missing = [tex]\frac{6}{40} \ 100[/tex]

% missing = 15%

Extend the study one more month to have more points and that the fraction of missing points decreases

3) If the researcher had presented the graph without the missing points, the sample that he has must already show the trend of the movement of the sun with respect to the days, making curves that fit the data.

In conclusion using the scientific method allows to find the answers

1) it is unethical to show unmeasured points

2) extend the experiment

3) make the graphs without the missing points and analyze the curves

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