> sciences? Because many of the people I know working on their Ms or PhD in molecular biology, is that they learn a few techniques in 1 year or so
> and then they just look like machines, just repeating a few protocols over and over again. And they also get too concentrated on a specific
> subject...
In addition to the many useful replies others have given, let me toss in a few more elements scientists learn on the way to a PhD. One learns how to plan an experiment, why experiments are being done. A student learns what control experiments are necessary and why, often by omitting them and learning from the experience. Often times experiments fail, and early on most student's work is so lacking in needed controls that no one can tell why it failed.
In addition to the many useful replies others have given, let me toss in a few more elements scientists learn on the way to a PhD. One learns how to plan an experiment, why experiments are being done. A student learns what control experiments are necessary and why, often by omitting them and learning from the experience. Often times experiments fail, and early on most student's work is so lacking in needed controls that no one can tell why it failed.
Presenting results and listening to research talks, you hear work dissected for having the wrong approach, or not having enough controls to accept the results, or needing additional experiments to buttress interesting early data. You read 100+ papers a year for a couple of years, many of them word by word several times, and hear published work praised and criticized. You read papers in your field, try to reproduce part of the results, and thereby learn surprising things.
Jim Lund
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