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Re:Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science by burnished on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:52PM (#36946336)
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.

Re:Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science by emmender1 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:24AM (#36957202)
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).