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A 3 page research paper that explores some relevant questions about how research is conducted. The first part of the paper addresses the fact that many researchers and journals not reject any sources more than five years old. The writer discusses this and offers an opinion. The second part of the paper deals with aspects of statistical analysis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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For this reason, researchers inevitably include a literature review with their studies, which shows the references, or knowledge, which informed the current endeavor. Increasingly, however, researchers--and many scholarly publications--have adopted
the attitude that any reference over five years old (some say three years) is hopelessly outdated and therefore irrelevant. Gottlieb (2003) finds this trend disturbing, but understands that it stems
from the incredibly rapid advance of technology; however, Gottlieb also argues that there is vast storehouse of knowledge that is considerable older than five years and this knowledge should not
be ignored. This writer/tutor tends to agree, although the student researching this topic should offer a personal opinion when doing his/her own paper from this guide. There are areas
of knowledge, primarily technological and medical, where new discoveries are happening constantly, which means that knowledge can become quickly outdated. Certainly, in this regard, the three or five year cutoff
date is appropriate. However, there are also areas of knowledge, such as studies of human behavior, where this dictum does not make sense. As Gottlieb asks, "Must we describe anew
the process of grieving and the nature of mourning" simply because a study on the topic was conducted a decade ago (Gottlieb, 2003). The answer is clearly "no," and this
points to the need to consider the context and subject of research before arbitrarily evaluating sources as out-of-date. Topic 2 : The scenario is presented that a researcher
randomly selects one-half of a class to use a highlighter in their textbooks, underlining pertinent passages as they read, and the other half of the class is instructed not
to use a highlighter. Lets suppose that the researcher rejects the null hypothesis and concludes that there is a significant difference between the two groups due to highlighting, what does
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