Quotes About Research

The placebo effect, or the effect of nonspecific factors of treatment, was not studied further because there was no profit in it.

at least one conclusion about their effects can be suggested: that a sizeable difference exists between the media effects postulated by the critics of mass culture and those discovered by empirical research. As a result, it would appear that the critics are making unwarranted inferences about the extent, intensity, and harmfulness of media effects; because they dislike media content and popular culture generally, they come to it with the aesthetic standards of high culture

To choose the right dog," he said, "you'll need to do your homework." "I finished my homework," said Amelia Bedelia.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves.

Sometimes there are no signs. That's what he told the newly grieving parents at the Tuesday night group. He told them there was research to suggest that teenage suicide was often the consequence of an impulsive decision.

Statistics: A group of numbers looking for a fight.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?

Her research had been a bit too graphic for a general readership, and her theory that adolescence didn't have to be full of the misery and rebelliousness it was in America got lost in the uproar.

scientific objectivity has too often and for too long been used as an excuse to ignore a social and hence, political practice in which women and people of color, among others, are dismissed as legitimate subjects of research.

We succumb to this time-sucking rule when we're writing for a new editor or publication, and we want to impress them with our reporting skills. We'll search a database for one more study, one more factoid that will make our article sound more authoritative. Or maybe one or two more expert quotes will provide more balance. We fall into this trap when we're tackling a subject we've never covered before or a lengthy assignment where we have more leeway on content.

Partial truth - the seeds of wisdom- can be found in many places. In primal instinct may partial truth be found ... in earthly law, social custom, scientific research, philosophy and religious doctrine. The seeds of wisdom are contained in all scriptures ever written ... especially in art, music and poetry ... and, above all, in Nature.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Research for social justice expands and improves the conditions for justice; it is an intellectual, cognitive and moral project, often fraught, never complete, but worthwhile

The ways in which scientific research is implicated in the worst excesses of colonialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Mucho de lo que sacaba de Internet era sospechoso, pues la red era como la Biblia: se podía encontrar documentación para apoyar con firmeza cualquier postura si uno navegaba el tiempo suficiente.

Research shows that teens with empathetic parents actually have lower levels of systemic inflammation—a biological marker of emotional stress—but we tend to breeze right past offering empathy and instead serve up reassurance.

When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

A budget is a reflection of our values, and as a member of the House Budget Committee, I work each year to ensure that our federal budget invests in programs that support working families, enhance our research and development capabilities, and ensure the safety and security of the American people.

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.