• Question: have you ever failed a really importaint experimant?

    Asked by howgoult1 to John, Del, Catherine, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by proffessoratom0901, , .
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      John Foster answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Sometimes experiments don’t work, even if we try really hard to do everything right. I have had small experiments go wrong, and usually you can work hard to find out why and fix it for next time. I haven’t had any big experiments fail though.

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      Adelle Thrower answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Not an experiment but I did fail my driving test!
      It’s sometimes good to fail experiments as you can learn from them and get ideas for new ones to improve them.

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      Muhammed Rassul answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      I would not say fail. When working in biology, sometimes the cells or biological system your are studying will not give you the results your expect, due to various reasons. If something goes wrong it is best to start again. Even finding out something does not work is a result in itself.

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