• Question: do you include your opinions in your work and if so, why?

    Asked by kimanddil to Jess on 17 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Jessica Chu

      Jessica Chu answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Hi,

      Sometimes if I expect a certain experiment to work and the results shows different then it is quite hard to explain! So I will have to repeat the tests a few more times just to confirm it is not agreeing with my predictions (my opinions). This can be quite frustating but also interesting because if it is not what you thought then it is interesting to find something new/works in a different way.
      And I think in drug discovery.. you do have to include your opinion in the way that I believe in the (for me) plant samples that I am working on have possible anticancer chemicals. Otherwise it is quite hard to be motivated if I don’t think it has the potential to treat cancer because… what’s the point in wasting time in something you already know or strongly believe that won’t work??

      🙂

Comments

  • Photo: narty

    narty commented on :

    opinions are good to back up not just the explanation but ur side of the arguement having opinions can also creat theorys that can become experiment so i always use a opinion because it helps

    • Photo: Edd

      Edd commented on :

      You’re right of course – science is all about having ideas or opinions and then trying to find evidence to support them. Sometimes you’ll find that your idea doesn’t work – so you just have to think of some new ideas or adapt your original idea!

      It sounds like you a thinking like a scientist already – do you think you would like to study science when you are older?