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Without a formal training on what is expected in a systematic research process,
defining a research problem may take longer, or the expectations are misplaced.
2. Academia‐ industry synergy is still lacking. Sometimes academia may not clearly
know what particularly needs to be researched to solve a practical problem,
or industry does not know that the tools for solving their research problem is already
available with the academia.
3. Trust issues : lack of confidence while sharing data
4. Too much competition and rivalry (due to funds, media highlight etc) can impede
interdisciplinary work
5. When projects become too big or too many, assistance towards handling purchase,
organization of travel is beneficial.
6. Data collection can be a pain from some agencies as they are not prompt or
organized. It can be also tricky in certain sectors (eg, sensitive information – how
many riots and which community was affected more? )
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The objective(s) can be to check the potential of something…. Which may not
necessarily give a “best solution”.
Rather, the solution is hardly ever a “generalized best solution”; it may be a better
one for a specific condition. So clearly noting and stating the assumptions, and
limitations make the study stronger and more meaningful.
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Importance of defining a research problem cannot be overemphasized.
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Can be visualized better for a social or behavioural science project.
1. Whom to survey? Say, school students who are not showing good class
performance. – to find out what is hampering their learning.
2. Under which conditions to survey? At the beginning of the school term or end ? –
are they optimistic at the beginning or do they dread the school term?
3. How many samples to be studied and analyzed to get results which are statistically
significant?
4. Questionnaire? interview?
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In simple graphs of x vs y plotting Y = f(X), the x‐axis is the independent variable by
convention
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Recall the individual experiments under control conditions that led to PV = nRT
Extraneous variables have to be held constant to study the effect of an independent
variable on the dependent variable.
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4. In testing of a new drug,
The experimental group (also called the treatment group) receives
the treatment whose effect the researcher is interested in.
The control group receives either no treatment, or a standard treatment whose effect
is already known, or a placebo (it has psychological effect
But no physiological effect).
5. For comparision of treatments, the different consitions are diff treatments.