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csreid t1_iykq7xn wrote

And it's sometimes kinda hard to realize you're doing a bad job, especially if your bunk experiments give good results

I didn't have a ton of guidance when I was writing my thesis (so, my first actual research work) and was so disheartened when I realized my excellent groundbreaking results were actually just from bad experimental setup.

Still published tho! ^^jk

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Pikalima t1_iylah8s wrote

Sometimes I consider retracting my very first paper because of this.

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