This question is more for teachers or college profs. Through high school and college in just about all my labs: chem, physics, bio I remember blatently cheating experiments so that I could get some realistic info on my lab sheets. It got to the point to where I just got sick of doing labs because nothing ever worked out and I knew I would just fabricate data to make it look good. Do you think this happens often? And if so are our lab courses really teaching our generations of scientists to "fake it"? To this day I found all my undergrad labs were a waste of time.
2006-12-16 06:42:07 · 2 answers · asked by travis R 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Im not a college prof or a teacher but here [Jamaica] we do the experiments together since the facilities are not really all that wonderful at the end of those experiments u write ur results and discuss them in your lab book it gives people an opportunity to cheat qand manipulate our results to reflect something else.So yes i think it does happen often and basically we as future scientists are big fakes we copy and its not from what we understand it kinda causes some worry u know as in where do we stand if we always have to rely on some else's work to pass or something.
2006-12-16 06:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the labs in high school are made to show trends in data and get an approximate answer most of the professionally done labs are done over and over with the best and most acurate equipment to get accurate values. and as for you not getting good answers and cheating that you not understanding what your doing that could be from poor teaching or you could just be ignorant.
2006-12-16 06:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋