That's Odd! How Scientists Respond to Anomalous Data
Susan Bell Trickett, J. Gregory Trafton, Christian Dieter Schunn, Anthony Mark Harrison · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2001
We use an in vivo methodology to investigate the responses of scientists to anomalies.Protocols of 3 scientists performing data analysis in 2 domains were analyzed.We found that the scientists noticed anomalies and paid more attention to them than to expected data.This attention took the form of proposing a hypothesis and then elaborating that hypothesis by reference to other data in the visual display, rather than to the scientists theoretical domain knowledge.