Timeline for How Best To Put The Fact Jigsaw Together In Research
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 17:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 15:10 | answer | added | ObscureOwl | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1355757721677672448 | ||
| Jan 25, 2021 at 13:53 | history | edited | user104446 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2021 at 9:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 25, 2021 at 4:49 | answer | added | user133933 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 24, 2021 at 21:23 | answer | added | user104446 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 13:09 | comment | added | user104446 | Most responses ignore the main point of the OP: when we have facts on some research topic, what uinversal tools do we use to extract the logical & sensible conclusions from them ? Naturally illogical people (I am one such) have no trouble hatching concepts. But logical analysis is something I had to learn methodically when I started to test my own software. Maybe a lot of the "missed connections" in physical sciences/engineering could be avoided - and expensive experiments saved - if suitable conclusion/eliminations were made by some logical analysis tool applied on the existing knowledge. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 19:19 | comment | added | user104446 | @puppetsock The goofers I made were when working in materials science. cheersmate: I did correspond with other PhDs and spent many a tea-time exchanging concerns on techniques of common interest with them. Off and on, one of us would play listener to the other guy's hassle. On technique related stuff it would be useful. But on actual research approaches, I never presumed to amend what they were doing: it would be outside my capability to do so and as they were foreigners in UK, they felt they had to negotiate things with their supervisors. No one here ever used index-cards usefully, I take it. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 17:11 | comment | added | puppetsock | Which general area is your research? Physics vs sociology for example, which probably have very different approaches. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 15:47 | comment | added | cheersmate | "... pick lice ... research rivals ..." - Collaboration is an immensely important part of research. If you don't trust (any?) other people enough to discuss ideas or even the state of the art with them, you're probably not gonna have a good time. Of course there are rivals, but you can't rule out everyone or you'll never have insightful discussions and miss out on a lot of ideas. If the standard approaches fail, discussions with people from outside the field might help. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | user104446 | @Cheersmate All right but for a doctoral student or a fellow this is basically either getting another member of the research group or less frequently someone from another organization to pick lice from your hair. And some knowledgeable people are research rivals of course. Is there a computerized version of index-cards that might be useful ? Have they started to apply AI techniques to research projects yet ? Have you found mindmaps or solitary vocalization any use ? BTW, I mean situations where the standard hypothesis was being pursued - by all in the field! - but quite hopelessly. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | cheersmate | Talking with knowledgable people. It's easy to missing something big or small when just mulling over alone. Also, without being an expert on the philosophy of science, "putting together simple facts to arrive at conclusions" sounds very much like the Baconian approach to science which has been abandoned in favor of more hypothesis-driven approaches. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 14:32 | comment | added | Buffy | Not at all. It is based on learning/brain research. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 14:27 | comment | added | user104446 | You havin' me on, Buffy ? | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 14:11 | comment | added | Buffy | Don't neglect non-technical things like taking breaks, getting enough sleep, exercise, and such. Insights often come when you don't force the mind to work with detail. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 14:10 | history | edited | user104446 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 13:25 | history | asked | user104446 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |