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Transcript: I think the general public perceives that there's a lot of homogeneity in the type of people who are good scientists. It would be a pretty dull job if that were the case. The truth is that people with a wide variety of training, personality traits, [and] skills in very different areas can contribute a lot to scientific discoveries. Certainly there are certain traits that scientists tend to have in common. But, it isn't always true that the people who are the brilliant high school students, who get the highest grades on the exam, are the ones who do well as practicing, experimental scientists. [T]here are a lot of skills in doing experimental science that can't be tested on standardized exams. [A]lthough good mathematical ability, good quantitative ability, good analytical thinking ability are part of being a good scientist, there's a very hard-to-quantitate element. And it should be encouraging to those students who are the B students in high school and the B students in college that very often they are the ones who end up doing the really great work in research. Back to Video Back to Becoming a Scientist Home |
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