Have any of your experiments gone wrong or didn’t work the way you’d planned? If so, how did you improve and learn from

Question: Have any of your experiments gone wrong or didn't work the way you'd planned? If so, how did you improve and learn from it?
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Asked by anon-176997 to Becky on 11 Jun 2018.
- Becky Thomas answered on 11 Jun 2018:
  
  Every single experiment or piece of work that I’ve done!!!! Ecology is tough, because it’s hard to predict what might happen, and a lot of stuff hasn’t been looked at before. You have to design your project well to make sure that you record everything you need (which can come from experience, or from asking someone else with experience) and in the end, whatever you find is interesting in some way. Some of my best work is an experiment that didn’t work the way I planned, but it ended up being something far more exciting.

Question: Have any of your experiments gone wrong or didn't work the way you'd planned? If so, how did you improve and learn from it?