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Yeah but you know plenty of how science gets done if you go do science. The goal of a scientific paper is to concisely convey what novel thing has been discover

Yeah but you know plenty of how science gets done if you go do science. The goal of a scientific paper is to concisely convey what novel thing has been discovered. It is not to convey how science gets done. PhD thesis are sometimes good places to look if you want more of the gory details. Edit: and if you ever take a physics lab in trying to measure the heat capacity of water or speed of light you learn a bunch about how science actually works.

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What? Sharing the difficulties you encountered is helpful for other researchers and for replication studies. The goal of a paper is to share your findings in a manner that is clear and helps advance knowledge in your field, and frequently the most important thing you can share is how you performed your experiment followed by why you chose to perform that experiment and whether it conformed to your expectations or not. Having personally gone through a couple years of lab classes; no, not really. Lord knows your professors may try but at least in my experience the profundity is lost on students. You get a lovely tour of scientific concensus, but most people see the experiments as being fore-ordained or like a recipe. To put it more simply university lab classes demonstrate so many things that are true that people sometimes never realize that science is a method for disproving things.
- emmender1 3y ago
  indeed, the scientific method is an alien language to most of us. the fact that the earth revolves around the sun is commonly accepted today.. but it took thousands of years of debate to arrive at that discovery. I can bet that the average high schooler or college student in science will have a difficult time designing experiments to prove the above fact (and for this reason it took so long - as it is completely non-intuitive).

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Yeah but you know plenty of how science gets done if you go do science. The goal of a scientific paper is to concisely convey what novel thing has been discover

by rubidium 3y ago

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What? Sharing the difficulties you encountered is helpful for other researchers and for replication studies. The goal of a paper is to share your findings in a manner that is clear and helps advance knowledge in your field, and frequently the most important thing you can share is how you performed your experiment followed by why you chose to perform that experiment and whether it conformed to your expectations or not. Having personally gone through a couple years of lab classes; no, not really. Lord knows your professors may try but at least in my experience the profundity is lost on students. You get a lovely tour of scientific concensus, but most people see the experiments as being fore-ordained or like a recipe. To put it more simply university lab classes demonstrate so many things that are true that people sometimes never realize that science is a method for disproving things.
- emmender1 3y ago
  indeed, the scientific method is an alien language to most of us. the fact that the earth revolves around the sun is commonly accepted today.. but it took thousands of years of debate to arrive at that discovery. I can bet that the average high schooler or college student in science will have a difficult time designing experiments to prove the above fact (and for this reason it took so long - as it is completely non-intuitive).