• Question: have any of your experiments failed?, (if so which ones and were you injured?)

    Asked by jaydavidlaurajane to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by aj1802.
    • Photo: Joseph Cook

      Joseph Cook answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Many of my experiments have failed. It’s all part of the research process. I once cut my hand during an experiment and had to go to hospital to have stitches.

    • Photo: Dr Hywel Jones

      Dr Hywel Jones answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Depends what you mean by fail. A badly designed experiment can fail because you did not set it up right to give you a reliable answer (and is a huge waste of time).
      Often you don’t find the result you were expecting but this often makes you think again about what you were assuming and sometimes you discover something new this way.

    • Photo: Poonam Kaushik

      Poonam Kaushik answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Yeah many times. Experiment failure occurs due to many reasons, that is u dnt obtain desired normal behavior, correct reading which u shud hv got anyway! failure does’nt means anything injurious, or kind of exploding things. It just means u did’nt get what was expected!

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