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Asked by ashclass to Thanasis, Laura, Nicola, Norman, Sandra on 13 Mar 2013.
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Laura Soul answered on 13 Mar 2013:
My hardest job is when I have to do all the complicated maths that I use to make my simulations of evolution work, it makes my brain ache! Its ok though because when I’ve done it I get to see my simulations work and that’s really cool.
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Sandra Phinbow answered on 13 Mar 2013:
The hardest part of my job is deciding that a slide is negative! Which should be easy right? If there’s nothing abnormal then it should be fine?
When cells look abnormal, the look different..sometimes they are very subtle and really it’s a fine line between normal and abnormal. Sometimes they are screamingly abnormal and you can tell as soon as you put a slide onthe micrscope stage “yup I dont like that”.
The hardest part is looking at the cells and making the absolute decision that they are completely normal. Because when you make that decision, you are sending a woman away for 3 to 5 years before she will need to have another test.
There’s about 150,000 cells on a slide and I have to make sure they are all normal before I decide it’s normal, and I don’t have all day to do it.
I find that the most scary and hardest part of my job.
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Nicola Wardrop answered on 13 Mar 2013:
Same as for Laura – my hardest part is the complex maths and statistics. I use these to help understand what impact the environment has on the number of people with a disease – for example, there might be more people with a disease in areas which are warmer and have a lot of rain. The methods I use help me to prove this and I can even use them to predict how many people might have the disease in other areas. They are pretty difficult though, and sometimes thinking about them boggles my brain…but the more I use them, the more I understand what is going on, so it is not as hard now as it was when I first started using them in 2006!
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