The N-Ray Debacle: How Expectations Can Cloud Your Judgment
Channel: Everything Science
Date: 31/10/2019

The N-Ray Debacle: How Expectations Can Cloud Your Judgment

Have you ever expected something to happen? Of course, you have. Like if someone raises their first to punch you and you flinch or you think it will rain so you bring an umbrella.

In real life, expectations are built on years of experience and help you prepare for what you think will happen next. But in science, expectations can be dangerous.

Scientists will tell you how important a hypothesis is in science, but sometimes these expectations can cloud your judgment.

Today we'll be talking about one of the most prominent examples of expectations getting the best of people: The Great N-Ray Debacle.

When scientists all across the world thought the discovered a new form of energy (the N-ray) just like the recent discovery of the x-ray.

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