Case #2 Mohammad is doing a research study for his earth science class. The object is to measure and make a plot of the altitude of the sun at noon over a four-month period. He collects data every third day. At the end of the four months Mohammad has six missing data points because cloudy
weather on those days prevented him from making the necessary measurements. He decides to estimate the correct data points for the missing days and simply include them in both his table of data and his graph.
1. Did Mohammad's action violate any principle of scientific ethics? Explain.
2. What other options did Mohammad have?
3. If you were Mohammad, what would you have done?