Unlike most high-school science fair participants, they seem unaware that the point of doing experiments is to identify what actually works.
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He would carefully review the literature, design all the studies (with his various co-authors), set up the experiments, print out all the questionnaires, and then, instead of actually doing the experiments and distributing the questionnaires, made it all up.
Doing conclusive experiments on people would have been out of the question, and trying to substitute laboratory animals was felt to be unreliable.
Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate.
How many organizations encourage learning by continually doing small experiments?
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Although the ice-minus bacteria proved safe and effective at preventing frost damage in field trials, further research and commercialization were discouraged by the combination of onerous government regulation, the inflated expense of doing the experiments and the prospect of huge downstream costs of pesticide registration.
One thousand school children between the ages of 15-18 will participate by doing one of the experiments.
"I will be doing a whole series of experiments, " he explained.
The experiments he was doing were not about how to transfer television to the Web, but rather, here's the Web, here are these tools we've never had before, what can we do that's interesting with them?
And this decision means that big drug companies will have more flexibility to start experimenting with therapies, as long as they can show that down the line the experiments they're doing will lead to a drug that can be marketed.
The researchers at Cern in Switzerland and Gran Sasso in Italy have tried really hard to find what they might be doing wrong - over three years and thousands of experiments - because they can hardly believe what they are seeing.
In both cases, the experiments would be tiny compared with what people are already doing.
He says to understand what the birds are doing and whether this sets them apart in any way, the same experiments need to be carried out, multiple times, on many different species, to properly compare results.
Earlier experiments had demonstrated this effect, but it was unclear whether the gas was doing this itself or was acting indirectly by lowering body temperature, which also reduces metabolism.
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