Bad research doesn’t stink - Carl J. Pearson, PhD
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Bad research doesn’t stink - Carl J. Pearson, PhD
The first is that not every piece of research needs to fit the format of an academic paper to be useful to the world. Research can be of high quality while being highly incremental, part of a larger series of work, or done with a standardized pipeline (like the sequencing of a genome) that doesn’t require the typical format of ‘abstract – introduct... See more
Saloni Dattani • Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress
There’s something deeply compelling to me about the idea that research—in some form—can be done by anyone with a serious commitment to intellectual inquiry.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Aggregating user research and paring it down into something portable and digestible is an essential step in making it useful to others.
Ziv Yaar • User is Always Right, The: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
Beware of research. I think the reason is that the subset of ideas that count as research is so narrow that it's unlikely that a project that satisfied that constraint would also satisfy the orthogonal constraint of solving users' problems.