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Question: When you discuss your findings with your colleagues do you argue about why its like that or what you need to do with that information to further your findings?
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Asked by 787sped24 to Arlene, Baljit, Jesus, MG, Michael on 7 Nov 2015.
- Baljit Ghatora answered on 7 Nov 2015:
  
  Yes- the beauty of research is that there will never be one way of doing something-scientists are very opinionated people and we will “discuss” not “argue” about other methods of doing things. I enjoy these discussions as it challenges you further into doing well…
- Arlene McBroom answered on 7 Nov 2015:
  
  Sometimes discussions with some of my customers can get quite heated. Sometimes they have carried out their investigations and made a conclusion, they want my findings to say the same thing but sometimes I can’t be as conclusive as they can. This means I have to have a long discussion to make them understand why it wouldn’t be scientifically correct to reach a solid conclusion
- Jesus Calvo-Castro answered on 8 Nov 2015:
  
  Discussions are crucial in research and a very important component prior to publishing your research in scientific journals. It is important to be confident but also to be able to listen to people who are more experienced than you.
- Maire Gorman answered on 10 Nov 2015:
  
  Ahhh yes! Not arguments as in heated, nasty, personal arguments.
  These are logical arguments. Lets call them discussions! I have one idea, supervisor has another(often a clever way to make life easier for me when processing data). We discuss, compromise, correct each other(we learn from each other….).
  
  When you submit a paper to a journal for publication you go through a refereeing process whereby two people who work in your area read your draft and comment/critique. You then need to defend it logically/back up arguments. Then after a few back & forth iterations usually we come to a compromise/mutual understanding.

Question: When you discuss your findings with your colleagues do you argue about why its like that or what you need to do with that information to further your findings?

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