• Question: What makes you excited when you do experiments?

    Asked by dancer123 to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Probash Chowdhury

      Probash Chowdhury answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      When the results show that there are little or no side effects and the patients will be safe.

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      The exciting part is the beginning! You plan a way of testing an idea and then you do it. Doing it is great. For my work, I see how my participants react to the experiment while they’re doing it. Sometimes, you realize that your experiment was better planned than operational. Like in one of my studies, I found that people were highly motivated by the small amount of money I was paying them. I had to take that into account when it came time to look at the effects of my experiment.

      Of course, for other scientists looking at my work, the exciting part is the end. They want to know what the effects of the experiment are!

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      The excitement from trying out a new technique, or making a new measurement, is a combination of two things: nervousness about whether it is actually going to work in the first place; and then excitement as you realise that you are going to be able to see whether your idea is going to be proved right!

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