• Question: What is your least favourite part of being a scientist and why?

    Asked by PineKid to Andy, Chris, Harriet, Jess, Nikki on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by JADA360, luis.
    • Photo: andy chapman

      andy chapman answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Marking exam papers

    • Photo: Jessica Groppi

      Jessica Groppi answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi!

      Teaching to students who don’t care at all, especially when they are at university and they complain all the time about having to learn and do things.

      Jess.

    • Photo: Christopher Blanford

      Christopher Blanford answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi PineKid
      I really (and agree with) like Jess’s answer.
      Outside of teaching, I get really frustrated when my experiments don’t work. When I work with bacteria, most of the times they do what they’re supposed to, but sometimes they just don’t and it can be really fiddly to find out the answer.
      Also, some of my experiments take a long time to run, and I get impatient.
      Chris

    • Photo: Harriet Reid

      Harriet Reid answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi PineKid,
      It’s got to be when my experiments don’t work, especially if it because I’ve been doing something stupid! It can be really frustrating if the experiment seems to work one day and you do it the next and it doesn’t work! But to have good quality science its important that I or another scientist can repeat the work to show its really true.

    • Photo: Nikki D'Arcy

      Nikki D'Arcy answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi PineKid

      Statistics….! I really really don’t like statistics. We have to anaylse our data to show that it is true and meaningful. I find it hard (and boring) to pick which test to use…. I would rather be in the lab playing with bacteria!

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