• Question: Do you experiments allways work ?

    Asked by twigglet to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 18 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      No, they don’t always first time and in worms sometimes you have to find different ways to do an experiment as they can often be hard to work with. But this makes the research on them more challenging and fun!

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      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      hey twigglet,

      short answer there is no…..long answer…..NNNNOOOOOOO!!! In fact today I had an experiment fail completely….two days work for nothing!!! It’s not all bad though, lots of things can be learnt from failed experiments!!

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      Lorna Houlihan answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      Not always – or at least they don’t always tell you the answer that you want!

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      Nope. Today they did, yesterday they didn’t. But you can normally get an idea from a ‘failed’ experiment about why it didn’t work, so fix it for next time (unless you drop it on the floor, which thankfully has never happened to me. then you learn nothing!)

    • Photo: Chris Needham

      Chris Needham answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      Hi twigglet. No, not always. As a computer scientist, it is sometimes because I’ve made a programming error when I’ve written some code, or that it more complicated than I thought, or that I need more data to test with.

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