Manipulation failed. What now?
I’m currently writing a bachelor’s thesis in psychology. For our study participants were randomly assigned to 1 out of 2 texts. Our hypothesis was that one of the texts would be perceived as sounding more effective than the other thus causing different behaviour between the groups. That was not the case. A manipulation check showed virtually no difference between the groups. Thus the independent t-test we’d planned to run is virtually pointless as there is no difference.
What can we do now? I appreciate any advice 😭
(We do have an advisor but they’re highly unserious, their suggestion was to scrap all the data collected and conduct a new test… with less than a week until our final study has to be turned in). I’m not savvy with statistics and am finding no help with my advisor so please! What can I do now?