Scholarly Misconduct |  | Delay the meeting... |
|  |  | Although selecting this option will not solve the differences in the data, it will allow the student to seek out advice about his options and/or think through the potential courses of actions and their consequences. This is an acceptable solution in itself. However, the course of action the student finally decides upon might not be. If the student finally decides to tell his advisor about the disparate data, or seeks advice that leads to this decision, this is an acceptable course of action. If the student arrives as a decision to alter the data or otherwise distort the research record in to achieve his goal of finishing up graduate studies more quickly, this is an unacceptable solution.