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Experiments that never seem to end often start with questions that are too open-ended. Learn how to adapt SMART goals to your experimental design, define clear metrics and endpoints, and build research questions that give your work direction, make results easier to interpret, and help your studies reach a meaningful conclusion.
You don’t have the time to read every paper, so stop trying! Here’s how I decide whether a paper has earned my attention: I break-up the paper into sections, then evaluate the main claim, compare the discussion with the introduction, turn the results into closed questions, and, finally, critically assess the controls. Here’s how you can do the same.
Ever re-run the same experiment three times just to keep getting “bad” results? In reality, no result is “bad” and experiments never “fail”. Instead, they produce data; sometimes that data is clear, sometimes it is not. After running an experiment, your results are either conclusive or inconclusive, and an inconclusive result is not useless. If…
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