Research Methods

The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. This process takes three main forms (although, as previously discussed, the boundaries between them may be obscure):

* Exploratory research, which helps to identify and define a problem or question.
* Constructive research, which tests theories and proposes solutions to a problem or question.
* Empirical research, which tests the feasibility of a solution using empirical evidence.

There are two major types of empirical research design: qualitative research and quantitative research. Researcher
...more

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
The Craft of Research
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches
Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
Social Research Methods
Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods)
Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods
The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research
The Practice of Social Research
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

James Rickards
Confabulation, or hallucination, is ubiquitous in AI/GPT output already. Efforts to correct this by self-learning algos and back propagation are unlikely to solve the problem because they add to the complexity of the system as a whole, which increases the likelihood of emergent ghosts. The difficulty is that duplicity is hard to detect unless you're a subject matter expert in the topic or you conduct your own research to test its accuracy. This begs the question — if you have to be a subject mat ...more
James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Nothing is right and wrong in research, research is an addiction with an endless search for its drug
P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

More quotes...
Futures Studies and Foresight Books that further thinking and research into our alternative possible or preferable futures, ab…more
11 members, last active 14 years ago
Design Books Books for UX Designers and Researcher
5 members, last active 7 years ago
Corpus Linguistics Reading Group @UMass Boston A reading group for applied linguistics students interested in reading and researching the topic…more
6 members, last active 5 years ago
I was wondering what peoples opinions are on; what makes a story/book good? and why? For me its…more
1 member, last active 6 years ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: research-methods and research-methodology