Saturday, May 31, 2008

Clinical Trials

First let me say I am not expert on clinical trials and far from it. In fact this post is not anything about clinical trials. It is a comparison of life with clinical trials. It just came to me as a random thought so here I am blogging about it.

Clinical trials are consisted of several experiments and you never know how they are going to turn out. You have an aim and a hypothesis and often expect and want to recieve the results which support the hypothesis. However you know there is an element of risk involved and need to take into consideration all the variables.

Life is very similar to this. You take risks and never know how they are going to turn out. Not only risks, but decisions (which have an element of risk involved). The decisions can be compared to the experiments and life the clinical trials. You never know if you are ever going to achieve your goal or find out the meaning, but you keep experimenting to find what works best.

Some examples:

  • Cosmetics used by women (Women generally have many many cosmetics and beauty products, because they are always trying to find the best one which suits them)
  • Food, you try to find the food you like and which doesn't give you allergic reactions until you are satisfied with what you eat.
  • Clothing, the way you dress you constantly experiment with different styles until you find the one you are comfortable with.
  • Minor or major decisions, you take the risk and make a decision not knowing what the outcome will be, aim at something, having a hypothesis as to what may happen and hopefully getting the results you wanted.

Certain choices you make or decisions you take are very important and play a major part. To an extent you have to experiment and step out of your comfort if indeed you have not found the thing that makes you most comfortable or happy. You can never be certain of anything so you make a lot of assumptions and presumptions (hypothesis) and it can more than easily be that they are incorrect. However these assumptions and presumptions come from evidence you have accumulated through previous experiments or from common knowledge. Know your variables and the possibilities.

Moral of the blabbering: Be careful and try to make the most well-educated decisions and don't be afraid to experiment, ther may be failures but success is sure to follow as everything teaches you a lesson. Expect the unexpected!

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