Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Can You Withstand It?

My research methods lab today had a discussion on science versus pseudoscience. I want to thank the people at this website (which the class looked at and evaluated as part of the lab) for inadvertently providing me with this wonderfully droll way of describing what our labs are going to be like for the rest of the semester:

"It is only expected that you ... can withstand the joy and the rigor" of the labs.

I anticipate "the joy and the rigor" to serve as a personal touchstone for me throughout the course and within my research career in general. Some days, withstanding the joy and the rigor of psychological research is harder than others.

1 comment:

Tam said...

"The joy and the rigor" describes so many things so well.