• Question: how many years does it take to perform the perfect experiment can there even be a perfect experiment where you get the same results every time?

    Asked by 892amem22 to Walaa, Sophie, Sarah, Adam on 2 Mar 2018.
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      Sophie Williams answered on 2 Mar 2018:

      Wow! This is a very difficult question! It depends on the experiment!! If you are coming up with something completely knew it takes a lot longer, I spent five months on one tiny aspect of a project once and still didn’t get it right!! Yes I think there can be a perfect experiment where you do get the same results, this is called replicability which is the ability to get an experiment or study to show the same answers as your previous one. This can be quite hard and you usually have a degree of error!

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      anon answered on 2 Mar 2018:

      When scientists are trying to prove an idea they will often use an experiment. This could be in a lab or on a computer. If the scientist keeps getting the same result and if other scientists get the same results by doing the experiment then that usually means the idea is either correct or incorrect! Experiments can be long or short – it depends on what you’re trying to do.

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