week 1 dq post

“you will identify an area of interest for a possible research topic. As you read about the different philosophical orientations in this week’s readings, consider if one of these orientations most closely aligns with your worldview and a particular approach to research.”

I am 48, from my experience, this question has little real-world application to the kind of research I do. You can find the greatest discovery of mankind, but unless it is packaged correctly for each different audience the “discovery” will be out of hand ignored flat out.

One of the things the person giving the lecture failed to even close to mention is the bias and on the heavy side of prejudice each different discipline has regarding “their methodology”.

The usual response is “unless the information is presented in the exact (close to letter to letter) what I am expecting to see, the findings have no basis for me”.

Posting an answer to these questions double blind based on “read the provided materials and answer in the parameters expected”. I provided two separate examples of how bias and in some cases violently bias some people and groups are regarding the exact way they need to have information presented to them. It appears this class is the same, the assumption is that every student coming into this classroom reads the same materials in the same way, sees the same “highlighted” portions of text and come to the same “what is important” conclusions. I can tell you from my perspective this does not apply to me.

I am not autistic nor am I Asperger’s, but I am on the spectrum. I do not process information the same way others do.

“Note: You are required to create a thread for your initial Discussion post before you will be able to view other colleagues’ postings in this forum”

I am in the 1% of the 1% of scholars. Which statistically means it has been close to a miracle to go this far in gradschool. Our greatest ability is to anger our teachers, I count myself lucky to have only had to bounce through 4 previous gradschools. My grades did not slip x4, it was all personality bias and completely inappropriate classroom interactions. One was flat out illegal actions done to me, the other was very grey area actions done by the head of the department. What research methods do I use, whatever will get the job done. You will have to repackage your results for different audiences if you want to be a serious scholar. This question does not apply to me, or my work. I use whatever works to track down the evidence. Research is not all that different from being a detective, the mind set needs to be who done it, not I know who did it I need to find the evidence to back up “who done it”. You follow the evidence in whatever way is needed.

Most academics publish works not for the benefit of science but to keep their job “publish or perish”. Most of the peer reviewed articles available are a group of people trying to stay relevant on both sides. The authors trying to stay relevant, the review board trying to keep their job. I have seen some articles published which possessed so little substance they were hardly worth the time reading the abstract. My philosophy, use what works.

but I assume the words you are looking for are “Positivism” which based on a couple different things HUP included this is impossible. Which is backed up by the general ideas surrounding Quantum thinking. Which both are backed by the facts that “all atoms communicate with each other”.

Interpretivism, also has serious and intense draw backs.

Scientific/Positivist Interpretivist/Anti-positivist

Laboratory Experiments Subjective/Argumentative

Field Experiments Reviews

Surveys ¸ Action Research ¸

Case Studies Case Studies ¸

Theorem Proof Descriptive/Interpretive

Forecasting Futures Research

Simulation Role/Game Playing

I am not drawn to a single one, since each have on the extreme side of negatives. Not the least of which is the Renaissance itself. I have recently discovered the reasons why the NAZI’s demanded to collect every single piece of art they could get their hands on. The Movie “Monuments Men” is a direct result of said actions. Almost every Renaissance painting piece of art is a scientific paper/mathematical study. The scholars during the end of the Burning Times had to bypass the Vatican in order too publish. In those days it was publish what the Vatican wants or perish. I am not drawn to a single one of the outlined ways in which to proceed. I am drawn to “what does the audience demand to see”.