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In Reply to: No, I meant merely this kind of scientist... posted by Wellfed on March 28, 2007 at 18:18:37:
"Not the other kind. ;-)"Sorry, Wellfed, there is no other kind of scientist...at least not early in their career. Later with age all people become more conservative but that doesn't mean the new ideas don't get through! Just more likely that the new idea is really something good and hype.
"Note especially the 'wherever it may lead' portion of Burbank's quote. The scientist doesn't control that part if they're looking for truth. It takes a little effort, but it's a fun and rewarding pastime.
"Again, I just don't think you get this really. Whereever it may lead is coming from the fact that often an unexpected result of an experiment is more interesting than if you get an expected result. However; once an anamalous observation is made, every effort is then given to make sure that it wasn't a failure, bias, or artifact in the experiment itself first, then to try to reproduce it (under CONTROLLED conditions). If it is reproducible under one set of conditions then what about other conditions. Determining the boundaries as it were. If it passes these tests then an attempt to determine what it means can be undertaken. This is what "whereever it may lead" means.
So while you have the intent of exploration you are not really approaching it with the skeptical mindset of a true scientist. Of course they too get excited by new results...and then they sober up and find out if the observation was really the result of something new or if it was a flaw in the experiment somehow. Face value is not an accepted aspect of exprimental science.
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Follow Ups
- Re: No, I meant merely this kind of scientist... - morricab 04:30:46 03/29/07 (4)
- Okay, okay, I don't want to burn up any more review time from my esteemed peers... - Wellfed 09:11:24 03/29/07 (3)
- Re: Okay, okay, I don't want to burn up any more review time from my esteemed peers... - john curl 16:37:14 03/29/07 (0)
- How do you derive your heading from the content? - clifff 13:36:58 03/29/07 (1)
- Re: How do you derive your heading from the content? - Wellfed 18:11:38 03/29/07 (0)
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