Oil Absorbency Hypothesis

The hypothesis for the Oil Absorbency Lab was rejected. My hypothesis was that if a person puts a sponge in materials “crude oil”, then it will absorb the most amount of oil. The data collected from this experiment rejected the hypothesis because it stated that the sponge would absorb the most oil, but the sponge did not absorb more oil than the rag. The rag and sponge’s ranges were for the first trial was 53.0g, the second trial was 51.0g, and the third trial was 46.0g and the rag. The rag and sponge’s averaged ranged scores were 51.0g, I believe this happened because the rag has more space than the sponge to hold the oil. An outside factor that may have caused this outcome could have been the amount of pressure placed on the material