What Kind Of Scientist Are You?

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1/6 Questions

My favourite part of the research process is...
- Preparation stage
- Formulating question of the research
- Overcoming challenges within the process
- Final results analysis
- Results reporting
- Experiments

About This Quiz

All the following archetypes of scientists, suggested in 1994 by Roslynn Haynes in her book “From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature”, are a reflection of the public understanding of science and social perception of the developing technologies during different periods of time.

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What do you think about the need to communicate science to society?
- There is no such need. Society has nothing to do with science.
- As long as it happens naturally this is ok, but there is no need for pursuing science communication.
- Science communication is an important tool in the hands of scientists and is a vital part of science in the 21st century.
- Science communication could be used as a tool to create impression scietists care about needs of society to avoid moral and legal issues, but indeed science doesn’t need such interaction
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What is your favourite way to spend your free time/weekends?
- I am a scientist, I don’t have free time! Even if I had, I would prefer to stay in my lab to continue my work.
- I usually go to conferences and courses to improve my skills and level up my qualification
- I spent my free time with my colleagues.
- I prefer to spend my free time in a harmony with a nature: hiking, camping, outdoor activities.
- Doing extreme sports
- Attending secret club to explore conspiracy theories.
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4.

If you had a collection of something, what would it be?
- Cold weapon
- Herbarium
- DNA samples of my ex partners
- Antique microscopes
- I don’t like to collect things, they are just a trash
- Samples of Uranium from the places I have travelled to
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5.

What kind of superpower would you like to have?
- Invisibility
- Telepathy
- Inhuman knowledge
- Teleportation
- Super speed
- Emotionlessness
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6.

I see myself as a researcher as…
- Critical, quarrelsome
- Open to new experiences, complex
- Quite irresponsible
- Calm, emotionally stable
- Secretive
- Isolated
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What Kind Of Scientist Are You?

My favourite part of the research process is...

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What do you think about the need to communicate science to society?

What is your favourite way to spend your free time/weekends?

If you had a collection of something, what would it be?

What kind of superpower would you like to have?

I see myself as a researcher as…