• Question: do you get angry when your experiment doesn't work

    Asked by Xx FAZE RAIN xX to Nicholas, Kate, David on 14 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Nicholas Pearce

      Nicholas Pearce answered on 14 Nov 2015:

      Hello,

      I don’t normally get angry – if it fails because I made a mistake, I just feel silly and if I did everything right and it doesn’t work I just try and figure out why. Lots of experiments fail, it would be hard to get angry all the time. Instead I just celebrate when it does work!

    • Photo: David Nunan

      David Nunan answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      hi,

      No I don’t get angry. Because my experiments involve people then it becomes very hard for me to control everything like you could do in an experiment in a lab with test tubes.

      I try to do my best to think of all the things that could go wrong before I start the experiment and then try to plan so that these don’t happen. If they do go wrong, then I try and find out why and then use this to plan for the next experiment. This is very much how scientific experiments work.

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