• Question: what will you do if your experiment doesn't succeed?

    Asked by Techmaniac to Dan, Jennifer, Luke, Martin, sakshisharda on 12 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by Toxic waste.
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      Sakshi Sharda answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      Well I would like to find out differences between men and women with the help of you guys. And it’s an open question whether men and women are different in certain aspects. So whatever we find out, will be something we can learn from 🙂

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      Jennifer Paxton answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      Hmmmm….. well the good thing about science is that experiments might not always go the way you want them but usually you learn something along the way anyway! Now that might be that you didn’t use the right method to ask your question, or you didn’t plan things out correctly, but usually you will get an answer about something! Its all a good learning experience 😉
      Now with the experiments I have planned, I want to find out how much you guys know about the body so there is really no right or wrong answer and so it is very likely to succeed, yay!
      BUT if for some reason it didn’t…I’d do what all scientists do when something doesn’t work……try, try and try again!

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      Martin Lindley answered on 14 Mar 2018:


      lots of experiments go wrong …that’s why science is so much fun….you never know what’s going to happen 🙂

      If my experiment does not work then I will go back to my research group and talk with them about everything that we did and what happened and then we will see if we can design a new experiment or if we can just change our experiment a little and do it again.

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      Dan Gordon answered on 14 Mar 2018:


      In many ways there is no such thing as not succeeding in science. We have an idea what should/could happen. If we find something else, then this is fantastic and we then need to work out why. So any answer is a good answer.

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      Luke Williams answered on 16 Mar 2018:


      Well in my project I am hoping that you will help design the questions with me. I suppose the biggest way it will fail is if people do not understand the questions. By asking you to help me with that, then hopefully it won’t happen.

      However, if something does wrong, then we can figure out exactly what went wrong. I can’t see what would happen that nothing works 🙂

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