• Question: Do you enjoy being a scientist or are you starting to get bored with? Do you think you will ever get bored with it?

    Asked by Angie to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 10 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by pepsi13.
    • Photo: Huma Shah

      Huma Shah answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Hello again Angie, you’ve been really busy coming up with all these great questions 🙂

      I don’t think I’ll ever get bored with doing science because you’re constantly learning – for example, in one experiment females and participants under 25 voted machines as better at conversation than males and those over 25. You can read the abstract of this paper, ‘Can Machines Talk?’ here:
      http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563216300048

      I’m re-doing the experiment to find if that result was due to the particular group of Chinese, Spanish and English undergraduates, or if there is some real evidence, perhaps because males have more experience with chat machines so males judges assess more strictly because their expectations could be higher.

      Huma

    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Hi Angie,

      I don’t think I will ever get bored with science, alas no one day is ever the same! I’m really excited for the puzzles that may need to be solved in the future!

      Peter

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