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No; I think in this context, "research skills" specifically means "skills in the service of conducting publishable research", not "skills that involve some quan
by DonaldPShimoda 2y ago
No; I think in this context, "research skills" specifically means "skills in the service of conducting publishable research", not "skills that involve some quantity of exploration" or something like that.
(To be clear, I don't agree with the sentiment of the comment to which you were replying, but I also don't think debugging "is research by definition".)
- Certhas 2y agoIt's not scientific research with the aim of publishing, but it is research as defined in the dictionary [1], and uses some of the same skills. Honestly, I am a scientist first. I am not aware of any activity outside of academia that is more research than debugging. You start with an observed phenomenon (the bug). Then you search for the cause of it. Along the way you formulate and test hypothesis, conduct experiments, gather evidence, check the literature. What's more: these activities are the bulk of what you do, especially in difficult cases. They are not incidental to debugging, they are the essence of the work. Much of what is published is the outcome of processes that look a lot less like research. [1] (E.g. I do research to win online argguments, or for a school essay, or a reporter does research for a story, or an engineer does research on how to implement some idea. None of these cases of research are academic/scientific research)