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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Made a mistake in my research

Hi everyone,

This is a throwaway account. I made a minor fuckup recently in my research. I am a PhD student. My supervisor is a very strict man and I am very afraid of him. He is very harsh whenever I make a mistake even during the midst of covid and I was struggling with mental health. Therefore, I am very afraid of being honest to him. 

I discovered that I have made a mistake in my calculations. The software I use has several versions. The numbers are different(very slightly) in the data from the previous version. And I have combined it with new data from the current version. I am noticing it just now. As a result, everything I have done so far is a complete waste. This is something I can fix in a couple of weeks. But, I am terribly afraid of him shouting at me. I am thinking of quitting. I am sitting here panicking badly. I do not know what to do.
gpt
It's easier for our minds to fear action than inaction because fight-or-flight can give us the instinctual bias that doing nothing is better than doing something of known consequence. As much as it feels like the most difficult thing you could do right now, this is probably a case where the short-term consequences to your work and your mental state will be less for fixing the problem than for letting it get any further. In simple terms, armor up and admit the hard thing before it comes to light any other way.