What is a Source of Error?
What is a source of error? A source of error is when somebody who is very into the experiment he is doing, does not realize variables that could affect the experiment or does not want to prove it wrong since it might make him earn a big prize. If that person does not do a null hypothesis to prove his experiment wrong that means that his experiment cannot be proven correct either. Perspective is also a giant part in source of error because a scientist doing his experiment can only view the experiment, as he wants it planned out or as his hypothesis states. An example of this would be the Austrian scientist who went to Argentina and told Perón that he could create small suns inside our planet with nuclear energy, but this experiment meant this scientist’s life so he did not want to prove it wrong; but was later proven wrong and lived in the Suburbs of Buenos Aires the rest of his life as a poor man. Interpretation yet another key part to source of error because a scientist might no want to see his experiment wrong and might come up with false and untrue results. Interpretation is very similar to perspective. Variables the final chapter in a source of error can totally destroy an experiment an example of this would be someone trying to see how fast an ice cream melts, but that person might not take in consideration the time of the year, the climate at that time, or the time of the day the experiment is conducted; and the scientist can come up with totally strange results between trials. Source of error can happen when a scientist is 100% sure that his experiment is correct and does nothing to prove it wrong or when the scientist does not take in consideration variables that could affect the experiment such as the climate, precipitation, pressure and many others.
Source of Error in My Experiment.
My experiment like most experiments done has had a source of error. The source of error in my experiment did not happen because I only tried to prove it right, instead it happened because of variables that I did not notice at certain times of the day. All my thirty pots received the same amount of sunlight by what I knew, but I was wrong on that because at 2:00 P.M. some of my pots received too much sunlight. This overdose of sunlight quickly dried up the water from the pots and then almost completely dried up the small and unhealthy sunflowers that have sprouted. Another variable that also affected those same pots and plants was the amount of carbon dioxide they received, they were very far away from an open window were the other pots were near and they were also near a stove. The combination of these variables caused poor results among those pots that got severely affected by them. The source of error in my experiment did cause some problems, but it did not change my experiment on a dramatical way. Variables have been the major and only cause of a source of error in my experiment.
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