Research is not the search for a specific result, but for an unbiased explanation of how things really work
Research Loop
- publication or new experiment
- generating hypothesis
- study design
- data collection
- analysis & hypothesis test
- interpretation
- → a new publication or experiment
Tools
- techniques to increase the probability for observed phenomena to be real
- accurate tools
- elimination of alternative explanations
- disproving some other rather than proving our own theory
- different measures with…
- different methods with…
- different samples of people