>what did you expect? Isn't that the point of doing science? What if the result showed no association or even a negative association? There are plenty of studi

>what did you expect? Isn't that the point of doing science? What if the result showed no association or even a negative association? There are plenty of studies that yield surprising or unintuitive results. That's why you do the study, because you can't know beforehand when your expectation will be right or wrong.