• Question: Do you ideas and experiments always work out?

    Asked by Danny G to Chloe, Irene, Pierre, NULL, Uday on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Massi, luke smith, Carlos.
    • Photo: Irene Regan

      Irene Regan answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      No my ideas and experiments don’t always work out. This is generally what happens in Research. If all our ideas worked- we would have no scientists!!!
      It is part of being a scientist- you are always trying to come up with new and better ideas.
      In a hospital we use experiments that we know work. But sometimes we have to do stuff again because it didn’t work the first time 🙁

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      NULL answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      About half of them stop when I find out that it’s been done before.

      Half of what is left don’t work out when I find out that no has done it before because it’s a stupid idea.

      And out of whatever’s left, half of those ones don’t work out because the idea is so complicated that it can’t be done with today’s technology.

      So, what percentage is left…?

    • Photo: Chloe Huseyin

      Chloe Huseyin answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Nope 🙁 but every time I do an experiment I learn something.. so that’s something right?

      For every experiment we have a hypothesis that we investigate. Lets pretend we have two groups and we think that there is a significant difference between them and it turns out there is no difference. This is still a valid result, it just means our original hypothesis was wrong.

    • Photo: Uday Bangavadi

      Uday Bangavadi answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Work out!!! Do you mean by required results???

      If so , No 🙁 .. For me most of the time it won’t work. But we learn from our mistakes .. And every-time the mistakes are new and we learn new things. When we get the result of what we expected then the feeling is awesome.

    • Photo: Pierre Casaubielh

      Pierre Casaubielh answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      We usually have an idea, that works in our mind, but putting it in practice require some patience and testing.

      I am meticulous and perseverant, I always tried having experiments working.

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