{"id":198,"date":"2021-09-21T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:10:17","slug":"the-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research-journal-of-cell-science-the-company-of-biologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/the-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research-journal-of-cell-science-the-company-of-biologists\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of stupidity in scientific research | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this is about science and PhD students, I think it applies to wicked problems in general and undergraduate students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, I don&#8217;t think students are made to understand how hard it is to do research. And how very, very hard it is to do important research. It&#8217;s a lot harder than taking even very demanding courses. What makes it difficult is that research is immersion in the unknown. We just don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re doing. We can&#8217;t be sure whether we&#8217;re asking the right question or doing the right experiment until we get the answer or the result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/jcs\/article\/121\/11\/1771\/30038\/The-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research\">The importance of stupidity in scientific research | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this is about science and PhD students, I think it applies to wicked problems in general and undergraduate students. First, I don&#8217;t think students are made to understand how hard it is to do research. And how very, very hard it is to do important research. It&#8217;s a lot harder than taking even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,51,53,38,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cluster-learning","category-failure","category-knowledge-production","category-science-of-learning","category-teaching","category-the-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}