What are some skills of a good scientiest?

Answer 1

A good scientist must have an open mind. He must also be intelligent and unbiased. But above all he must have a true passion for science because if he is not passionate about what he does, he will not be able to get very far.

Answer 2

You already have some of the qualities of the scientist. You are curious. you like to do new and different things. you like to explore new places. These are the natural talents or skills of a scientists. Knowing how to apply science and knowing some of the facts of science will help you appreciate and understand your modern world.
Eyes are extremely important in making observations. However, the way people see varies from person to person.

Describing is another skill of the scientist. Describing is writing or telling about observations. A good description allows us to share observations with others. Describing often includes the skill of identifying, or naming something.

A skill that build upon observing, describing, and identifying is the skill of inferring. Inferring is drawing conclusions based on what you see and what you already know.

Another skill is how to do research . If you are really keen on doing research you can really become a specialist in finding anything anywhere ( on the web too ) when doing research.

One thing i find helpfull , even though i'm not actually a scientist . I'm an astronomer .... is to be able to explain what your studying or giving information to someone in a good way . For example you might know it in a scientific way but you must make it easier for someone who may not know the lingo .
One last thing .. keep a notebook with you anywhere , anytime! ideas or information may pop up, believe me!

Here is an extra for you ..
One of our visiting astronomers at my observatory
write this out for you about notebooks & research!
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What are the steps in the scientific method?

Imagine you are a life scientist and you want to study this yearly return of the swallows. Here are the five steps in the scientific method you would follow:

State the problem. What is the question you are concerned about? In the example above it is "Why do swallows return on about March 19?"
Collect Information. Do research on the habits of swallows and the weather conditions in San Juan Capistrano. Get any other information that will help you understand the problem.
Form a guess based on information - a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a possible explanation for a group of related observations. One guess might be that the swallows return when the insects appear. Or the swallows return when the temperature is favorable.
Test the hypothesis. Your hypothesis is tested by making careful obsevations. You will need to know the temperature of San Juan Capistrano. You also need to know the number of insects and the date of arrival of the birds for several years.
Draw a conclusion. The conclusion you make must relate directly to your observations. A conclusion is an explanation of the results of your testing. After a number of years, you may form a theory about the swallos' return. A theory is a statement of a hypothesis which seems to explain observations. That is, a theory has evidence to support it. A theory can be changed if better evidence is available. Scientific theories are constantly being revised as new information is discovered.




Another way is to email scientists on the web!
They can tell you exactly because they ARE scientists ! link is provided below ..

I hope that helps ! great question !




~I hope that certainly helps for you!

Answer 3

be curious (guess this is a quality, rather than a skill)

be open-minded, i.e. never try to make the facts fit the theory, but always be ready to question what you thought you know, should an experiment not fit the theory. This is more easy to do when one is younger... ;-)

be disciplined. If you're going to make observations, experiments, and will want to attempt to draw any valid conclusions, you'll need to be disciplined and systematic so that your data is good quality, so that any conclusions you attempt to draw are worth something. Don't forget that in science, if you publish a new result, others will attempt to reproduce it, and if you weren't systematic (or worse, if you cheated), they will fail.

never give up. Sometimes you will have a good idea, but implementing it in the form of an experiment may be very difficult and take months, or even years, or even decades. You may have to seek funding, year after year. This requires dedication and courage. Then when experiments are under way, it may be that you need to repeat them for years until you reach some kind of conclusion. Then when all this is done you will need to publish, and it make take years to see a paper accepted.

as for other skills? Depending on the speciality, you will need good math skills.

hope this helps

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Answer 4

1. Number one you should have excellent Math skills.
2. Continuous reading, learning and researching.
3. Felxible in understanding different and mulitple theories.
4. Conecting dots together, everything in the universe work uniformally and effectively in a one big circle.
5. A good scientiest should take sides, not staying in the middle.
6. Should be very passonate about his/her work, that's the only thing that will keep him/her going forward and ahead.
7. Accept others views and styles, should not be hardheaded.

Answer 5

Perserverance and true open-mindedness -- research takes time and patience and a willingness to wait and see what comes of the work, rather than pushing for a specific outcome. If you focus on a desired outcome, you will tend to throw out anything that doesn't match and in doing so you will miss the thing that you should have found. It is finding the stuff that you didn't expect that makes scientific research so interesting.

Engineering is the flip side: taking what has been learned and applying it, usually with a single-minded focus on getting to a specific result. If you like to achieve a specific goal, usually engineering rather than research is where you should be.

Answer 6

You have to be able to ask the right questions and come up with a way to answer them.

Answer 7

By far the most important skill is being able to say "I don't know".

Answer 8

Never giving up...having a sense of optimism and positivity....being unafraid....at the same time, being realistic....