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Sometimes, staff tend to be biased towards the positive outcomes when conducting research. Tim is a research staff who does experiments and conducts research. He wants to achieve a positive result in his experiment. After the research has been concluded, in order to gain a positive outcome, he creates a set of subjective scales of measurement.

Is there any ethical issue with respect this case?