04-17-2024, 10:42 AM
(04-15-2024, 02:37 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Nice to see their open-minded enough to be sensitive to the fact that "how" one researches certain phenomenon can actually affect the results of your experiments. A comforting thought for me.
Just grabbing this one sentence of yours to add a bit of information... mainly that it's well known among researchers that how one researches affects the results. When you go for a Masters' (and emphasized in the PhD programs) you learn to assess types of problems and which types of data gathering and research (both philosophical approaches AND design approaches) work with certain questions and which don't.
As a side note, I'm consulting with a group of psychologists studying fan culture and have helped them modify their approach to the study based on cultural factors that don't ever appear in psychology studies of this type (big change is that they were unaware of how the Internet changed fan culture.)
