Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Hypothesis

Just heard one story concerning the research. One professor has done some trangenic experiment, the purpose is to obtain resistant plant. when she got, it showed really high resistant at the beginning, however, after some days, the plant showed highly infected symptoms. When the student told this results to the supervisor, she did not believe it. Because, in her mind the plant should be resistant and infection only possible caused by contamination. The student has done three individual experiments and got same results, the supervisor still does not believe, because she already think the resistance is the truth, not the results of the experiment....
So, I think it could be really important to have some hypothesis before the research, but it should not affect our mind when we obtain results which does not support the hypothesis. The hypothesis could be right, and could be wrong too.

References............positive and negative

References are important especially when we discuss something,we need some references to support our results, hypothesis, speculations. However, sometime it also could kill the new idea which maybe become milestone in the research.