Written in advance in (pessimistic) anticipation, so that we can make the experiment better. If the experiment cannot be made better, then this can be thrown out as a challenge to future researchers to see if they can do better.

Write the Discussion in Advance

The discussion section of an experimental report is where researchers interpret their findings, defend their methodological choices, acknowledge the experiment's limitations, and identify potential weaknesses that could explain unexpected null results.

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- Title and Abstract
- Motivation/Literature Review 
- Experimental Method 
- Results
- Discussion

Experimental Report Structure

Literature review is not about the experiment itself but rather about what it might mean. It scopes what a good experiment should look like by defining the gap in knowledge that a suitable experiment could fill. How an experimenter fills that gap is a matter of design.

Literature Review

An experiment is a specific type of research study designed to determine if a meaningful relationship between two variables is causal in nature. By utilizing statistical analysis to support these causal conclusions, experiments serve as one of the most common and valuable tools in psychological research.

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