It seems I'll need a LARGER grant than first estimated.
An additional factor:
I can remember experiments in high school physics where we had to roll balls down a track and time how long it took them to reach certain points. As you might imagine, clicking a stopwatch at exactly the right instant was as much art as science. It required good attention and good reflexes.
I knew what the answers were “supposed” to be, but I dutifully did the experiment as designed and was not surprised to have some data points that didn’t perfectly fit the expected curve. Other students, who knew what the outcome was supposed to be, faked their data, so that it would exactly match the acceleration curve. To my surprise, they got better grades because they had the “right” data. The teacher was apparently too stupid to understand concepts like experimental error. He rewarded students who lied to make their “data” fit.
I wonder how much of that went on in other schools across the country. I wonder how often that still happens today in schools and in real laboratories.