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Asked by jahidur to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by emilybrockwell, rochdale, codytyler002.
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Jen Gupta answered on 14 Jun 2011:
It can be stressful when you don’t find what you want but even if you don’t find what you want then it can still be interesting! For example, if we look for galaxies in a certain place and we don’t find any then we have to ask why there aren’t any galaxies there! Sometimes not finding something can actually be way more interesting!
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Michael Taggart answered on 14 Jun 2011:
Yes. For the most part, it happens a lot as you need to tweak experiments a number of times before you’ll find the right conditions to really test your idea. But when you have what you think is a really good idea and a good experiment to test it and it then doesn’t work – or, worse, does the opposite to what you thought – then it can be stressful as you need to take several steps back to try and move forward again. But it’s just the way that progress is made. If we knew what would work all the time it wouldn’t be so interesting!
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Mona Gharaie answered on 14 Jun 2011:
It can be stress ful, but at the same time it is fun, because if I cannot get what I wanted I start thinking of some new ways and that is the point where I learn something new.
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Emma Bennett answered on 14 Jun 2011:
As Michael said if experiments are just not working then that can be a little stressful as 6 months can go by before you have any meaningful data. The main stresses seem to come when you need to present your data to other people and just don’t have anything to show them – doodles in a lab book generally don’t cut it. Not finding what you expect is in some ways more exciting though as it opens up a completely new set of questions to try and answer.
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