Wednesday, January 31, 2018

This week's C&EN

A few of the articles from this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:

1 comment:

  1. I don't work in synthetic chemistry, but I agree with both correspondent's points on the reproducibility problem.

    The only exposure to statistics that I had in my undergraduate chemistry curriculum was in quantitative analysis and p-chem (statistical mechanics), and none that I can think of in my graduate curriculum. The quantitative analysis statistics has proved more useful for me, but like the first correspondent, I have had to learn a lot on the job and it doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy feeling that I actually know what I am talking about.

    What the second correspondent wrote is something I wonder about any time I read a experimental section of a paper. For myself, one reason I went into science is to "know" - and I do not feel like I "know" enough when I am confronted with these kind of factors described in this letter. I am continually searching for ways within my area to get a better handle on what is actually going on.

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