• Question: How far will the results of your experiment go?

    Asked by 862mcrk28 to Aaron, Ananthi, Ashley, Christopher, Emma, Lea on 14 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by 248mcrk28.
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      Emma Stevenson answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Every set of results leads to more experiments, so that research can just go on and on! One day you would hope that you got some results that were very significant to your research and the wider population, so that you could use the results to benefit the public somehow. But… there would still be more to understand, so you just keep on doing science!

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      Aaron Brown answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      If your results prove something that is really really unique it can make a change to the way things are normally carried out. For example if a new disease cure is found, this could be used instead of the old method. But as Emma says, experiments often lead to more experiments to find out what your results mean 😊

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      Christopher Richardson answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      It depends on the question you are trying to answer! Emma sounds like she’s speaking from experience when she says it can go on and on and that’s very true. Before every experiment I always ask myself is this experiment and its results going to get me closer to answer my question, if not then I don’t do that test or I change it so that it does! Then you just keep going till you can sit back and confidently say your results answer your question well enough!

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      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Ideally experiments are well planned and your results lead you to a good conclusion reasonably quickly, however a lot of the time (most of the time), the experiments you do may give you results that lead to more questions being asked! Albert Einstein famously said “if we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research” I love this quote because it gives you freedom to take your experiments and results as far as you can go. Quite often the limit of research is the funding!

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      Ashley Otter answered on 16 Nov 2017:

      It depends what we find, experiments can end up going on for years and years, whereas others can end relatively soonish if they don’t show anything interesting 🙂

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