Imagine you find an unexpected but statistically significant

Imagine you find an unexpected but statistically significant result in your data. Which of the following courses of action makes the most sense?

A)Ignore it

B) immediately writer it up for publication

C)follow up on it in a new research study

D)none of the above

Solution

if there is unexpected statistically result then we should follow uo on it in a new research study as in this way either we will find some error in our research or we will find some great research.

option c is correct.