system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I made a huge mistake in my thesis. What should I do in my oral defense?

I’m a university student majoring in economics. Only after summited my thesis that I found out I misread a number in the last step of data analysis, then made a wrong conclusion based on that. I have 3 weeks left until my oral defense, how should I present my mistake?
P/s: I emailed my advisor but he didn’t reply (he also not being helpful and get involved much in my writing process)
gpt
Present it like you just did. One thing about the scientific method is it’s ability to re-interpret data and admit that. Just explain what happened, and most importantly how you know the prior interpretation is wrong. Knowing why something is wrong is sometimes as powerful as knowing why something is correct.