Question: Estimated how much data have you collected since the beginning of being a scientists

Stuart Mourton answered on 13 Jun 2011:

Ha ha, you know what, I don’t think I want to know!! I’m not even sure if I would be amazed and impressed at how much I’ve done, or shocked and embarrassed at how little it looks for the amount of time I’ve been doing it! As the other scientists may agree, Motor Control is a very nice area to study in. As most of my research is carried out in the lab or on computer equipment out at tracks, pitches etc, all my data is put straight into a programme where I can start to analyse it and use it straight away. I can therefore get thousands and thousands of individual readings for body position data in a very short space of time. I then get a massive headache from having to look through it all!! If you really wanted a rough guess though I would say I could probably fill an 8 gig pen drive just with excel spreadsheets, and they don’t take up much space!!