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Excessive trust in authorities and its influence on experimental design
Tung-Tien Sun
Most graduate curricula in biological sciences offer courses that cover various scientific disciplines, but they give relatively little formal instruction in experimental design. Students learn the latter primarily through hands-on experience in the laboratory, and some find this learning process bewildering and frustrating. So, what is the root of the problem, and how can young researchers get experiments to work more predictably and reproducibly? |
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