A researcher finds that their data contradicts their initial hypothesis. What does this necessarily mean?(1 point)

Responses

The hypothesis requires further investigation or revision.
The hypothesis requires further investigation or revision.

The results are meaningless and should be discarded.
The results are meaningless and should be discarded.

Their hypothesis is definitively wrong.
Their hypothesis is definitively wrong.

Their experiment was poorly designed.
Their experiment was poorly designed.

1 answer

The correct response is:

The hypothesis requires further investigation or revision.

Finding that data contradicts an initial hypothesis indicates that the hypothesis may need to be re-evaluated or refined based on the new evidence, rather than being dismissed or concluded as definitively wrong or attributing poor design to the experiment without further examination.