• Question: If you couldn't work in the type of science you do at the moment, what scientific job would you want and why.

    Asked by Alice.13 to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I would probably be a doctor. Biology really fascinates me and I love helping people, I think I’d love being a doctor!

    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I’m thinking about finding a job in ‘data science’, which is the idea of using statistics, and training computer algorithms, to find patterns in data. We can then use those patterns to make predictions about the future. Netflix and Amazon and lots of other companies also use data science to predict what movies/products you will like based on what you’ve watched/bought before. I’d like to use data science to make the world a better place through healthcare, education, or ecology!

    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I’d want to be a paleontologist. I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid and wanted to study them before I got into chemistry.

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      Like Maheen I think I would also love to be a doctor. I think helping people in something like A&E would be really rewarding and is also a really important job!

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