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For the same reason it's important to record any result...because they have explanations.

It may be that the unexpected result is correct...look at the trends in 1st ionisation energies across the Periodic Table. You'll get some results that don't follow the trend but are still correct.

The fact that they don't follow the trend in some ways makes the result more important because it tells us something extra.

Then again, your unexpected result may indeed be erroneous...in which case it might tell you about experimental errors or false assumptions of your experiment.

Finally, it's important statistically. In chemistry and physics, we work on averages pretty much all of the time. Any time anything is stated to you as fact, it's an average. Electron shells, energies, expected reaction products. Averages.

And therefore it's nice to know what our chances are, which means you need to know about the ones that didn't go according to the textbooks. Although frankly that isn't so urgent to all but the most advanced scientific endeavours.

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