Uncertainty

You lay in my arms,

conflicted and troubled;

Is this is how it's supposed to be?

Your inner voice mumbled.

I heard that voice,

loud and clear;

Before your lips,

even moved my dear;

I know how it feels to be uncertain,

to live in that moment of unsureness;

All I'll do is play my part, 

and build us a founded love fortress.

Impenetrable it will be,

to uncertainty first of all;

Honesty guards it strong,  

and looks after the walls.

Your eyes would be,

it's opening gates;

Straight to my heart,

that path would take. 

When you reach there,

you'll have a smile;

That'll last forever, 

This is worthwhile.

I look in your eyes,

and they speak to me,

as my lips they see,

Yours I wanna be...

I understand that uncertainty,

but I'd love to love you indefinitely.

How real are lab experiments?

I have recently started reading about the difference between field experiments and lab experiments. Most of my work is now hovering over understanding human behavior and relating it to the impact on design environments, albeit impacts of human behavior in general give valuable insights. It's interesting how reviewer's comments towards journal and conference papers relating to understanding decision making in design gravitate towards realism of the experiments and more often than not rejecting the papers on this intuitive but misleading idea of "realism".

Still in process of reading, but I intend to keep filling this post up with arguments for lab experiments.

An interesting read for those who argue for field experiments and consider lab experiments as "unrealistic". It's interesting how a lot of social scientists have been arguing about this for ages but as engineers we disregard the effects of bias towards loss aversion or judgement biases.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5952/535