KAREN HAS BEEN WORKING WITH DR. TARNER ON A RESEARCH STUDY FOR THE...

3. Karen has been working with Dr. Tarner on a research study for the past two years. They have collected data on flavor preferences in rats and found some very impressive results. They presented their research at a conference and submitted a paper about the project to an academic journal. When the reviews of their manuscript come back from the journal, the reviewers have several questions about the data. Dr. Tarner asks Karen to look over the data and the SPSS output from the study and double-check that they did everything correctly. When Karen reviews the data, she realizes that she made a mistake in entering the data. Inadvertently, she had repeated some of the same data values twice in the data file, so it appeared there were 270 observations when there were actually 240. Reflection Questions: d. Why might Karen decide not to tell Dr. Tarner about the error? Karen is afraid, or the results don’t change. e. What are some possible negative consequences that might result if Karen tells Dr. Tarner and they both report it to the journal editors? The paper might not be published. f. What are some possible negative consequences that might result if Karen tells Dr. Tarner but they agree not to report the mistake to the journal editor? The conclusions drawn from the data could be misleading and even false.