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Scenario

How research teams can navigate conflicting responses to unexpected scientific results

Our lab team has been struggling with how to handle unexpected results that don't fit our hypothesis - some of us want to dig deeper and revise our approach, others think we should stick to the original protocol, and the tension is making it hard to move forward with any coherence.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group of researchers is discovering that their different relationships to uncertainty and methodology create paralysis when faced with data that challenges their assumptions.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Scientific method as a way of knowing?”

Peri

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