• Question: What is your least faverat thing about science?

    Asked by to Heather, Dre, Charli, Oliver, Becky on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Heather Price answered on 19 Jun 2014:


      You can spend weeks and weeks doing an experiment, and then something small can happen and it can all go wrong, so that can be really annoying. So that means when you’re doing experiments you have to concentrate a lot!

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      Rebecca Williams answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      Hi tylerbriany and maryclevergirl123,

      What a great question! My least favourite thing about science is that I don’t get to do experiments all the time. When the experiements have finished and I’ve discovered something, I have to write a report about it. Do you do that at school too?

      Well, scientists have to do this so other scientists can read about what they have done and what they have found out. It takes a long time to write this properly, and you write it with other scientists. Sometimes, when you’ve written something and you send it to your scientist friends, your work comes back with lots of red ink on it telling you where you’ve gone wrong! Its just like getting work back at school from a teacher. Booooooooo!

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      Charlotte Flavell answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      Hi tylerbriany and maryclevergirl123,

      My least favourite thing about science is definitely when an experiment doesn’t work. Most of my experiments have lots of steps and can take anything from 2 days to 2 moths to finish. If when you get all the results back after 2 months you find out there were no differences in the groups it can make you very sad. On the other hand, when it DOES work you get really happy and I take everyone to the pub in celebration!

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      Oliver George answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      I have to agree with Heather. Experiments can go wrong more often than they work. This because there can be so many things which are important for the experiment to work and if you’re the first person doing it then you have to spend loads of time making sure they’re all right!

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      Andrea Cristini answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      I would say the paperwork, at the moment I am still a student so I have to show that I am doing the work I am supposed to be doing and that it’s of a certain standard. I would rather just get on with the science!

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