What your pipette tip box says about you
...and other results from our personality test.
A few months ago, we created a silly personality test for scientists. We’ve ended up with over 5000 responses. We couldn’t just leave this precious data locked up at castle Briefly.
So, what does your pipette tip box says about you?
I feel personally attacked. But how many of us are there out there?
OK. Not that many. Stop judging us.
Let’s learn a bit more about ourselves. Compared to the average scientist, jumbled pipette tip boxers are
more intrigued by the outliers (+6%). Well maybe we have to be.
more into their laptops than their pipettes (+7%)… To no one’s surprise.
more likely to be late to the bus (+8%). Messy lab, messy life I guess.
Back to the global analysis. What are we in science for?
We spend months, planning, designing, troubleshooting, and analysing experiments. It seems like the vast majority of us really just crave a clear answer to the questions we set out to answer
Interestingly though, when a fly does appear in the ointment and an outlier threatens our clear answer, a decent chunk (44%) of those hoping for clear answers can’t help but be curious about it. How did it get there? What’s its story? Why does it love my ointment so much?
The majority do just hate the fly though. Begone plot ruiner. For science’s sake, I hope they give it a fair trial before they exclude it…
How we approach science
So most of us want answers. How do we approach getting them?
Mostly, with due caution! Despite the majority preferring the pipette to the laptop, 62% still take the time to mull things over before rushing to test their brilliant new idea.
And what about once we have some data? With how much caution do we approach the results?
To the 42%… Well… Mayyybe there’s a band?. No judgement! But erm, maybe lets run it again to be sure? 😉
What about how you load your centrifuge?
Ask around your lab. Statistically, you probably know someone who has tried to develop an algorithm to solve The Balanced Centrifuge Problem. And by the looks of it, quite a few have found a solution too.
If you haven’t already, you can take the test here and find out your lab type. And no, it isn’t any more scientific than this analysis.
But yes, I still want to hear what result you got.