Homework Responses Week 1

Greetings,

Knowing something is missing or unknown can motivate a person to seek how, why, or what they are trying to understand. Knowledge and research methods are valuable to a consumer of research because they enable individuals to understand previously known and unknown things and what they can and cannot know. Constructive analysis provides the necessary tools or techniques to gather and collect various information to obtain a reliable conclusion by giving a research method (Walliman, 2010). As our society continues to change, many new additions to our way of life will require us to understand better how we may evaluate various claims made by academics, politicians, and advertisers. It's vital to have a basic understanding of the research process to help overcome any developed misunderstandings or anxieties associated with conducting and understanding the research process, ultimately reducing any possible existing issues between useful knowledge and scientific knowledge (Sim).

When it comes to being a consumer of scholarly research, one will typically have the opportunity to review an abundance of information in detail about a particular method of data collection provided by a researcher enabling you to consider all of the details provided to validate the researcher's claims. With the detailed information provided in a scholarly research method, the consumer will most likely have all of the detailed information needed rather than conducting actual research independently (Williman, 2010). When one considers the time required to perform a thorough and credible research method outright, the scholarly research method will enable the consumer to review and validate the researcher's claim effectively in a fraction of the time.  

For example, if the researcher has to research various data collection methods, consider the techniques utilized in our society's consumer research process. Typically the researcher will incorporate an efficient survey software to understand what consumers want and need in a particular product and what's missing or desired. Another example of a useful research method is the quantitative research method. The data collected by this research process allows for collecting specific information via questionnaires, online surveys, and polls, which generate the necessary data obtained by numbers and statistics collected on the consumers (Molnar). Compared to the already scholarly research method, these two examples of data collection methods can be likely time-consuming.

The more we began to understand the importance of knowing where and how researched data provides us with credible answers to our questions and concerns, the better off we are in the end. Whether conducting the research yourself or utilizing the research already conducted by someone else, the importance of gathering the necessary information to validate the research process on what was and what was not known before the data collection process, scrutinizing findings, and confirming the end state of research process without being bias in the findings.

References:

Ellis, L., Hartley, R. D., & Walsh, A. (2009). Research methods in criminal justice and criminology: An interdisciplinary approach. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

 

Walliman, N. (2010). Research methods: The basics. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

 

Shao-Chee Sim, Ph.D. What is Research and How can research Benefit your Organization (Community Health Center). https://med.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/asian-health2/How_Research_Benefits_Nonprofits_Shao_Chee_Sim.pdf

 

Daniel W. Barrett, Ph.D. The Importance of Doing Research (Earnestly!). Journal of Undergraduate Psychological Research 2008, Vol 3. http://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files3/70153e7d449e60b4374d312779881668.pdf

 

Morgan Molnar. How to do market research: the ultimate guide. https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/market-research-ultimate-guide/