Quotes About Research

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich...

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ. Genetic research suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans

the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

Having parented successfully in the past may rank as a satisfying accomplishment retrospectively; but the bulk of research finds that being a parent, while it is happening, does not increase life satisfaction and may reduce it.

A solid group of 100 or so [cognitive] biases has been repeatedly shown to exist,

Persons who dismiss stories such as those of Keith John Sampson as merely "anecdotal" need to be reminded that the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

Their first stop, naturally, was the library.

There's two possible outcomes if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery

If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

Las últimas investigaciones científicas sobre la madurez son muy interesantes, destacando con énfasis las siguientes características: capacidad para amar, capacidad para trabajar y adquisición de cultura.

The study suggests that weight problems could cancel out life-extending benefits of medical advances in the coming decades.

For example, one study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that those who are 30 pounds overweight lose between one and six years of life, while those who are about 100 pounds overweight"' lose up to 13 years of life.

between 1995 and 2000 more than 12,000 new works on the Third Reich were published,

We administered our main surveys by mail for methodological reasons. More than other types of survey research, mail surveys provide respondents with a feeling of anonymity and encourage them to be more open to sensitive questions. Also, in mail surveys, respondents have more time to recall the past and this improves their ability to remember. In addition to this, the response rates in mail surveys are at least as good as in face-to-face or telephone surveys

our surveys received response rates of between 45 and 50 percent, which are generally considered very admirable in survey research dealing with older populations in large cities.

impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.

researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students.

Eric R. Kandel

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.