• Question: Is there anything about science you dislike

    Asked by 582bera34 to Colin, John, Kevin, Shikha, Triona on 17 Nov 2014.
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      Tríona O'Connell answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Yup, I don’t like /doing/ experiments. I love planning experiments, I love analysing the results of experiments, I love understanding what went wrong in experiments, but carrying out experiments? Not for me.
      About 90% of my colleagues don’t understand that. They love the practical element, the feeling that you are physically doing science. I love thinking about science, so I’d be delighted for someone else to do the physical bit and I’d help them plan and understand it. Sadly, in a PhD you don’t get underlings, so I have do all my work myself (but at least I get someone cool data to analyse out of it)

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      Kevin Motherway answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I think it can be a really competitive and nasty at times in terms of publishing papers and poeple being really competeitve to the point that the greater goal gets lost. There’s a “publish or die” mentatlity that can take over with people rushing to get credit and accliam (to hold onto their job) rather than actually achieve something meaningful

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      Shikha Sharma answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Hi 582bera 34,

      I will also support Kevin’s answer..I don’t like the pressure we have for publishing papers. So many people just publish crap work because of the pressure to save their job. This crap work becomes the base of a new researcher in that field when he reads that and after several times repeating the same protocol he /she just can’t obtain the results published in that paper.Hence, more frustrated scientists.

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