Bill's Story - Part I

She was wasting her time with her poorly planned experiment!

I first encountered DOE at Hewlett Packard. After receiving my chemistry degree, HP was my first employer. My supervisor asked me to help an ink-jet ink-manufacturing chemist with an experiment. She didn't have the equipment needed to make certain measurements. I was to prepare inks to her specification and make the measurements for her.

I was excited about this project and eager to get started. And, then I saw her experiments! She was varying all the ink ingredients at once! How could she possibly expect to make any sense of her data? Every scientist knows that you vary only one ingredient at a time so you can understand which one is having an effect. I felt that she was wasting her time and mine with her poorly planned experiments. I couldn't’t let this happen. I spoke with my mentor, an excellent chemist. I asked him how to avoid wasting our time and how to do the experiments correctly. I explained the situation: My colleague was varying all the ingredients at the same time. I arrogantly stated that this was the “worst set of experiments” I had ever seen! Was I ever wrong!

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