{"id":14,"date":"2005-12-14T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-04-26T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T07:16:00","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess, typical scientific experiments, or their output, can roughly be divided into three different classes. When you look at the results of your experiment you can either…<\/p>\n

  • … see that there is a correlation between what you did (altered) and what happened (what \/ how much changed in your sample). Thus you can show that, say, A influences B in this and that way. Very nice. If no one ever showed that before, you can write a paper about it and\/or fly to a conference somewhere and tell your excited colleagues all about it. (If somebody already showed the same thing, you might still write a paper about it. Unfortunately, people do that all the time.)<\/li>\n
  • … see that there is no correlation between what you did and what happened. That’s okay as well, you write a paper about it and so on, and in case you’re a PhD student you’ve got some more content for your thesis. Of course, usually you’d prefer the outcome mentioned above. Just because “Hey, I had a great idea about how things might work; so to check this I set up an experiment in this and that way; if you want to do the same experiment, you’ve got to take special care about this and that; now for sample preparation I did this and that, and some other things as well; than I indeed did measure the sample property B in question while carefully changing A in a controlled and complicated manner… and see! I can clearly show that B… umm, well, it doesn’t give the slightest damn about A.<\/em>” is sort of anticlimactic, isn’t it? But still, it’s a result, and you learned something about how things work.<\/li>\n
  • … or you can look at your measurement and realize that all you can see is clearly nothing. You get no idea if fiddling with A does anything to B or not, because the g#!\u00c2\u00a7$%! sample just does as it pleases anyway. Or it just doesn’t work at all, even so it did yesterday and might do so tomorrow, or never again.<\/li>\n

    Someone said the third option happens 99 out of 100 times in science.
    \nHe must have been an overoptimistic lunatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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