Reviewers feel justification is adequate.
Reviewers feel justification for withholding the data is adequate. You have explain the problem occurring during data collection was not realized until just before submitting the manuscript. As mentioned before, since the inconsistency does not directly relate to the main research questions, you decided to ignore the findings. Here are two possible implications from this choice of action:
| The article is published without the inconsistent findings.
Or
| The article is published, yet you now decide to mention the errors leading to inconsistencies in the discussion section.
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