How many experiments have you done in the past week/month?

Question: How many experiments have you done in the past week/month?
- Keywords:
  experiment,
  research
Asked by RuqaiaT on 7 Dec 2021.
- Joel Turner answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  Not many the past few weeks because I’ve been writing papers about my last experiments to share with other scientists, but normally I do 1 or 2 a day, depending on how many meetings I have to go to.
- Karen Fung answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  The past month I have been working on one experiment but I have been repeating the same experiment a few times to optimise it.
- Ashleigh Kitchiner answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  No laboratory experiments but I create a lot of plans based on previous experiments and survey design
- Tamsin Bell answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  Lots! Yesterday I did 3 and tomorrow I will try and do 6! The number of experiments per day depends what type of experiment you are doing, some are long and some are shorter!
- Maike Wilschnack answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  Not so many, only 2, but they were successful 🙂
- Alex King answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  During Autumn we still have some field work. But in winter is when we carry out most lab work. During winter I normally spend most the day carrying out lab work (perhaps six/seven/eight hours a day). That work is for this specific project. Normally we have three to four different projects going on at one time, each requiring experiments to be carried out. It is hard to say an exact number of experiments I would do in a typical week. I hope this answers your question?
- Georgia England answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  I haven’t been doing any new experiments this past week, but I have been planning an experiment which I will be starting in a few weeks time and looking at the data I collected during my previous experiment (which lasted the entire summer!)
- Natasha Marchant answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  I do lots of analytical tests each week but it all depends on how many samples I get asked to analyse! For example, just yesterday I had 25 samples that I had to analyse! but often it can be a lot less.
- Alexander Munnoch answered on 9 Nov 2021: last edited 9 Nov 2021 12:23 pm
  
  In the last month most of my experimental time has been working through a DoE (Design of Experiments) I made for mixtures for spray drying feeds. The DoE lets me minimise the number of experiments I need to do in order to make statistically significant observations (sitting at about 60 out of 70 measurements for this experiment so far). DoE is really useful when you want to save time and have the ability to change multiple things at the same time in an experiment (e.g. temperature, concentration, pH etc.) whilst still figuring out (by plotting and interpreting graphs) what is mainly causing the results you see.
- Delphine Byford answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  A real experiment in a lab? None. Experiments with my two kids at home? A fair few 🙂 I love seeing their amazement with the simplest experiments at home
- Michael Short answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  I am a computational scientist, so my experiments are usually done on a computer! That way we can run hundreds of thousands of experiments in automatically sometimes… So long as the software works well 🙂 . I ran computational experiments for 3 projects this month so far 🙂
- Jayne Roberts answered on 9 Nov 2021:
  
  I haven’t done any but I have spent time this week discussing ideas and designing experiments which other people will do. I don’t work in a lab anymore although I used to. Previously I would have been doing around 2-3 experiments a week.
- Alexander De Bruin answered on 10 Nov 2021:
  
  I have made ~500 different measurements in the last week which were part of ~4 separate experiment investigations. My role is fairly heavily lab-based, so I have lots of experiments and studies running at any given time!
- Sebastiano Gadolini answered on 11 Nov 2021:
  
  The right answer will be: I failed 12 experiments and 2 were kind of a success. “Trial and error” is the basic in research, and error is the most common result. On the other hand, when an experiment goes in the right direction it is a blast! .
- Georgina Brogden answered on 12 Nov 2021:
  
  I do about 3 experiments every week. Some take a couple of hours, and some take all night. I use special equipment for my experiments that I have to share with the rest of my team, so I do as many experiments as I can when the equipment is available.

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