Three dialogs between a Professor and a student who performed an experiment without including controls

These are fictional exchanges between a Professor and a student who didn’t include controls in their experiment. Which is your favorite?

  1. This is a good start.

2. This is better. It’s not okay to forget about controls.

3. This Prof is not happy.

Acknowledgments

I thank OpenAI ChatGPT for prodcuing the dialogs and DALL-E 2 for the image.

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Biologist; passionate about science, plant pathogens, genomics, and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food, and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.