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How do I handle a chapter that turned out to be a dead end?

thesis-dissertation ▲ 1 2 views 2026-10-08

My second chapter has a literature review and analysis showing the hypothesis did not hold. It is coherent but not the story my proposal promised. My supervisor says cut it, my gut says keep it. What is the convention?

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