• Question: why do you enjoy science so much?

    Asked by student20 to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 15 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by tatumb, einstein54, student17, jennykuht123, dannyboy1997, emilyh, vderguti.
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      Katherine Davies answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      I enjoy it because it allows you to find out new things. The new methods I am working on for determining time since death have never been used anywhere in the world – I have devised them! If, after lots of testing, they work well enough, then all police forces/forensic scientists could potentially use them, and this feels very rewarding that I could make a difference in society.

      Wouldn’t you like to find a new species of animal, or discover something new – you could become famous!

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      Jodie Dunnett answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      I like finding out how and why things work. I also like having a definite answer to things – I am an A+B=C kind of girl!

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      Jamie Pringle answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hello student20,

      I love science, I cant do enough of it! It’s a bit like being a detective, you have some hypothesis that you want to test (like who did it!), then using your knowledge, you apply it to a new situation to see if something works or not. You can then write about it and tell everyone what you found out.

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      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi Student20 – I enjoy it because it can be so challenging. You really have to work hard to investigate some of the questions that we research and then you have to try and figure out what the results of your experiments or tests tell you and how these relate to the original questions you were interested in.. its always interesting and you never get bored !

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      Mark Hill answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi,

      I enjoy science because it makes sense of non-sense, if that helps. I look at a collision scene, see the damage, the injuries to people involved and use the available science disciplines to work out what happened, how the vehicles came to collide, their speeds, whether they were braking or not, the lights were on, seat belts being worn, how people may have been thrown from the vehicles, if vehicles failed to stop, identifying them in order to trace them, and hundreds of other questions Ensuring that those who are guilty of offences are found guilty, and those who are innocent are shown to be innocent. That is really important..

      It is this variety and study of all of those factors that makes my job so interesting.

      I hope that this helps. Good luck,

      Mark.

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