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>My graduate advisor told me that I should be designing experiments that had counterintuitive results that were solidly significant. This is the advice of a tr
by cryoshon 9y ago
>My graduate advisor told me that I should be designing experiments that had counterintuitive results that were solidly significant.
This is the advice of a true scientist. I'm refreshed to see that they're still out there.
- Filligree 9y ago> This is the advice of a true scientist. I'm refreshed to see that they're still out there. It encourages students to cheat, because most of the time you won't get either. Not a significant result, and usually not a counterintuitive one either. You're pretty likely to get a significant result that agrees with existing theory, though.
- richardwhiuk 9y agoBy significant, you mean statistically, not to people in general.