• Question: Does your job affect the way you do or see things? For example habits.

    Asked by anon-269817 on 17 Nov 2020.
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      Arthur Dyer answered on 17 Nov 2020:


      Science definitely teaches you to ask questions and to be okay with not knowing the answer right away. The best part science is realising how much we don’t yet know and being excited to find the answers out.

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      Christopher Marriott answered on 17 Nov 2020:


      Hi Priscilla, really good question! I would say that science teaches you to always ask questions, and gives you a curiosity that you never had before. Its also helped me to become a lot more organised in my everyday life (since scientists need to be organised otherwise they’d lose all of their hard work!), and has definitely taught me that not knowing the answer is okay, and is often more fun-figuring out the answer is the best part!

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      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Nov 2020:


      I think it does- I ask ‘why?’ or ‘really?’ more. When someone tells me a ‘fact’ I feel like I need to check and make sure, I look to find out if there is evidence to supports the claim. Something like ‘A blue whales heart is as big as a car’, but The BBC and scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada had a look at the heart of a real blue whale and it was big, but not as big as a car, maybe a small golf cart.

      Here is the BBC article on the heart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150820-see-the-worlds-biggest-heart-blue-whales-is-first-to-be-preserved

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      Andrew Stark answered on 17 Nov 2020:


      Working in development you get to understand that not everything will work, and that you have to try a lot of things before you find the answer. Then when you get the answer don’t be surprised if a different / better answer is developed and you have to change again.

      Also science can make you quite sceptical as you get to understand how graphs and statistics work, and that bad data can be used to mislead people.

      Lastly you should always be prepared to admit that you’re wrong, as the world changes we have to adapt. The things that we did as standard 20 years have now been replaced with new / different techniques. Just look at the way that a few clicks on a computer can get you information that would have taken days of research wandering about a library to find.

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      Joanna Giles answered on 17 Nov 2020:


      Thank you for the question Pricilla!
      I think my job makes me a little bit more critical. I never take things at face value, I like to do research and ask questions before accepting in answer!

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      Nooshin Ghavami answered on 20 Nov 2020:


      Sometimes it does, in a good way. For example with social media these days there is a lot of fake stories and hoax, I’ve learnt that when there isn’t scientific evidence for anything published online then it can’t be trusted. Unfortunately not all people realise this and might sometimes believe fake medical/scientific news online

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      Stephanie Longet answered on 21 Nov 2020:


      I am a person who analyses everything. I think it comes from my job but it is maybe also my personality…

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