Hello, I am a researcher in UC Berkeley. As an experimentalist, from day to day, I just suffered from lots of things in my research, for example, I sometimes found there not sufficient components for my experiment setup, so I have to order and wait for the shipping.
But more importantly, in my research career, I found writing a paper is time consuming in making nice graphs and checking grammar problems. The first time writing cover letter is also a rough experience, not too much guidance from the advisor as he is super busy. Also, the way how journal review papers just consumes a lot of time, which is where I am stuck.
So just curious what are your painful moments? which of them are really low-efficient in your opinion?
Sometimes there comes the idea: How can we cheat our way if we have trouble with the experimental design, for instance absence of important test subjects resp. their answer, or we note suddenly anxious there are problematic irregularities of the cell distribution of cases in a multivariate design, or the cheating question: How to get sufficient numbers of cases? What to do that the expected significance of the interconnection of tested variables is by no means significant? Should I use tricks or not? Such questions don't be mentioned in published experimental studies, normally. Some people may now use the opportunity, to betray secrects.
Respected Hein Retter,
I totally agreed your comments,
My question is how to avoid that kind of betrayal situation if deadline is ahead?
Thanks
Procrastination? In re...to paper processing by the journals there is an saying that the best & most exciting moments are those when you send the paper and the worst moments are those when you wait for responses from the journal.
Where do I start...? :) One big frustration is that the majority of conferences and journals don't have a feedback mechanism for reviews. That is, you have no way to defend your paper to reviewers who misunderstood it. Another frustration is that there are periods when you will have to keep working in absence of proper funding. Another is the very slow return of investment, it may take many years before a piece of work receives recognition. Another is the difficulty to find like-minded enthusiastic people to collaborate with unless you are lucky to work in a large research group. On the other hand, it is like any other job, you need to have strength and be persistent in your effort.
One of the biggest challenges is reviewers who have no expertise in the research methodology I am using, and therefore provide invalid critiques.
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