A researcher was once criticized for falsifying data. Among his data were figures obtained from 7 groups of mice , with 20 individual mice in each group. These values were given for the percentage of successes in each group: 53%, 58%, 63%, 46%comma nbsp 48 %comma nbsp 67 %comma nbsp 54 %nothing nothing. What's wrong with those values?

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Duran

15 December, 01:01

A researcher was once criticized for falsifying data. Among his data were figures obtained from 7 groups of mice , with 20 individual mice in each group. These values were given for the percentage of successes in each group: 53%, 58%, 63%, 46%comma nbsp 48 %comma nbsp 67 %comma nbsp 54 %nothing nothing. What's wrong with those values?

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Aidan Stevenson · Answer 1

The fact that is wrong with the data is that the percentages are not in the multiples of 25.

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The progressive data got of living samples that cannot register an oral response by themselves has to be observed and interpreted. In this type of research, the data obtained needs to be rounded off in order to exhibit approximation. Hence, it is preferable to annotate the data in multiples of 25 which does not seem to be done by the researcher whose example has been given.