Under the Rug, or a Plea for the Lighter Touch.
Under the Rug, or a Plea for the Lighter Touch.
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在地毯下，或者请求更轻松的接触。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jsb.2008.03.014
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Frank,Joachim
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作者：
Frank,Joachim
阅读和撰写今天枯燥、冷静的科学论述文本，会唤起人们对19世纪轶事的怀念：“在最近一次访问A--时，R--博士和我一起坐在同一列火车上，向我提到了一个关于层流…行为的猜想“在一项通常被清除的科学研究中，偶然的、不可复制的部分有一些迷人的、非常人性化的东西--日常生活中影响一个概念在脑海中形成的方式的偶然相遇；一个解决问题的格式塔在梦中的出现；从树上掉下来的苹果；日常工作的得失；与同事的争吵；努力让学生说出他们所说的话，并在草稿中说出他们的意思；关于作者顺序的令人尴尬的讨论(顺便说一句，把他们都列出来是可以避免的)。一篇旨在保留从实验概念到混乱的结果及其解释的丰富经验的文章，如果超越“材料和方法”，增加一个标题为“个人和问题”甚至“隐藏在地毯下”的部分，将会做得很好。
Reading and writing the dry, dispassionate texts of today’s scientific discourse invokes nostalgia for the anecdotal accounts of the 19th century:“On the occasion of a recent visit to A--, Dr. R--, traveling on the same train with me, mentioned to me a conjecture concerning the behavior of laminar flow….” There is something fascinating and very human about the incidental, irreproducible part of a scientific study which is usually purged--the serendipitous encounters of everyday life that influence the way a concept is formed in one’s mind; the appearance of a problem-solving gestalt in a dream; the apple that falls from a tree; the hits and misses of the everyday work; the quarrels with colleagues; the struggles with students to make them mean what they say and say what they mean in the draft; the embarrassing discussions about the sequence of authors (which could be avoided, incidentally, by listing them all in a circular fashion). An article that intends to preserve the richness of the experience leading from the conception of an experiment to the messy results and their interpretation would do well by going beyond “Materials and Methods,” by including a section entitled “Personals and Problems” or even “Under the Rug.”