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What if you assume your hypothesis is wrong when you design an experiment?
Designing experiments is deceptively simple. After all, you know what’s going on, right? So you just design an experiment that manipulates or otherwise examines the variable of interest, with an appropriate control, then show the pattern you expected, write it … Continue reading
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Tagged Design of experiments, Experiment, history of science, science
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Keeping up with the literature
Perhaps there was a time when you might have known everyone working on questions related to yours. A handful of meetings might have let you know all there was to be known in your field. If you missed a meeting, … Continue reading
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Tagged Citation, Database, Ernst Mayr, Facebook, Google, Google Scholar, history of science, literature, new ideas, Reading, references, Research
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