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I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpre
by stilley2 8y ago
I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpreted that way.
- ianbooker 8y agoThat is right, And wrong. There are explicit exploratory methods you can use to carry out research and that is very fine, but most research today is done using an inference model, where you formulate a hypothesis and use data to corroborate it. That is one of the premises of big data that most people do not get: It enables you to do research explicitly exploratory again, while still being rigorous and somehow falsifiable..
- stilley2 8y agoWhat specific exploratory methods are you referring to?
- AlexCoventry 8y agoExploratory work is extremely valuable, but less trustworthy ipso facto.