• Question: What made you want to be scientist in the first place?

    Asked by jodiebowey23 to Damien, Rachael, Simon, Suzi, Tim on 19 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by matrix123, cazgav98.
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      Rachael Ward answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Good question – I’m not entirely sure myself!
      I think it was because I like science at school and then at university and I simply wanted to carry on learning about it and doing experiments to find things out. I didnt have a plan to be one, it just happened as I followed a career that really excites me.

      I hope that answers your question

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      Suzi Gage answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Hi @jodiebowey23
      It IS a good question!
      I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was at school (I’ve written another question about how there were a number of different things I wanted to be), but I went on a weekend ‘taster’ course about psychology while doing my A levels, and decided to study it. And as soon as I got to Uni I just LOVED it.

      So here I am!
      Hope this answers your question! 🙂

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      Damien Hall answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I wanted to be a language scientist because I love working with languages and speaking other languages, but I also love how precise you can be about them. Most people know (don’t they? – most Brits, anyway) what a Cockney accent and a Geordie accent sound like, and so most Brits can tell the difference when they hear them. But with science we can make graphs of exactly what the difference is (in terms of the physics of the sounds). That means you can say something about what you hear, and have the figures to back it up, which is important if you want other people to believe your research. If you only have the evidence of your ears, that’s great to start with, but other people could say “Well, I don’t hear it that way”, and you wouldn’t be able to prove who was right!

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