How can research be so systematic or some how someone is striving research to follow very calculated or manipulated step.
I'am not completely sure, if i understand your question right. Are you asking, how to plan you research that well ahead of doing the actual experiments, that you have a minimal or nonexistent failure rate and save on unnecessary experiments as much as possible etc.?
I am with Thomas on this one. You can only streamline science if you know what the outcome will be.
I think it was Mark Twain who said that the name of the greatest inventor was Serendipity.
I wanted to know why research going on in different field are so streamlined means why everything is so systematic but researches outcomes can't be like that.In any research work outcomes can't be exactly same as we are expected.
Okay, in that sense the answer to your question would be "swarm intelligence" and experience. Since there are a lot of researchers, working on similar topics at all times, most possible routes are touched upon. Since the researchers worldwide are in constant exchange these days, every “misstep” o every failed attempt to solve a scientific question gets known to others pretty quickly. Additionally, nowadays, there are records on most experiments which did work out (scientific papers), so you can already select some possible solutions beforehand, by reading up on the state of the art.
If you go way back, in the age of industrialization, both industry and research profited immensely from the expansion of the global communications network and global exchange of research.
Maybe a good example is the discovery of several elements. Dmitri Mendeleev was a genius chemist and was able to predict several elements and even their properties from his concept of arranging the known elements a certain way (by their properties), decades before they were actually discovered! However he did not had the means of detecting them. But since he shared his concept as the periodic table worldwide/(or at least in several countries), other researchers who had the means of isolating and detecting these elements. They could base their future experiments on this theory, working more directly towards discovering these elements with exactly the predicted properties and did not have to “go fishing in the dark”.
Hi Nadeem, I still do not understand your question. What do you mean when you say :
"why research going on in different field are so streamlined means why everything is so systematic but researches outcomes can't be like that"?
Can you rephrase that? Or give an example?
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