Plan your experiments in such a way that the data can be published Make sure you have a sound question (hypothesis) before you begin your research That hypothesis may not be the same you wish to use when publishing the data Research without a sound hypothesis is hard to write up, but sometimes there are good reasons to make an inventory(no sound hypothesis required Think three times before you start your experimentsPlan your experiments in such a way that the data can be published • Make sure you have a sound question (hypothesis) before you begin your research • That hypothesis may not be the same you wish to use when publishing the data • Research without a sound hypothesis is hard to write up, but … • sometimes there are good reasons to make an “inventory” (no sound hypothesis required) • Think three times before you start your experiments