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To: GodGunsGuts

One of the more important lessons I learned in high school physics was the procedure of “fudging” the results to get the desired answer. In that case, the payoff was a better grade.

To a working scientist, the payoff is continued funding.


7 posted on 06/01/2009 10:03:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: Fresh Wind
One of the more important lessons I learned in high school physics was the procedure of “fudging” the results to get the desired answer. In that case, the payoff was a better grade.

To a working scientist, the payoff is continued funding.

I actually left my first job out of graduate school - at a start-up pharma development company - in part because of the poor working relationship that developed with my supervisor after I refused his "suggestions" that I fudge some data to make the results look better for what the company wanted.

The other part was because this same supervisor was a drunk driver - with me and other co-workers in the vehicle with him, not noticing until after he started driving - which caused me to question his judgment.

14 posted on 06/01/2009 10:23:33 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Fresh Wind
One of the more important lessons I learned in high school physics was the procedure of “fudging” the results to get the desired answer.Uh, you learned to cheat. And where did that lesson get you?
143 posted on 06/02/2009 6:27:19 PM PDT by ColdWater
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