No, it isn’t.
How often have you heard this, or even said it yourself?
👎 The experiment didn’t work AGAIN …
👎 Yeah, the results are completely random…
👎 No idea, it worked great last week…
It seems to be part of our everyday lab life, to sigh and accept that experiments oftentimes do not work, simply because it is their nature to fail again and again 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️.
But is that really the case? Are we simply at the mercy of chance when it comes to experiments?
No. ❌
There are three main causes for failed experiments:
👉 Students are expected to be experts in lab work.
👉 Yet they are rarely explicitly trained in hands-on laboratory work through one-on-one guidance.
👉 Poor training produces predictable patterns of failure.
The students are not to blame, and failed experiments are not a coincidence. They are systemic failures.
Can we really afford such waste in the life sciences just because of lack of adequate training? 👀
👉😖 And aren’t we depriving our students of the opportunity to learn things properly, instead of expecting them to already know them?
If we expect excellence, we must invest in training. Failure isn’t fate, it is designed. 🖋
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Author: asban