There is No Hope of Doing Perfect Research Essay

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To answer the question of whether there can be such a thing as perfect research we would have to consider the research methodologies employed and how the research question is formulated and presented. The human mind is complex and in its complexity dwells room for misunderstanding and the propensity to err, so as long as the human mind is engaged in research, there can be no such thing as flawless research.

To make research as near to perfection as possible it is important to look at the design of the methodology and eliminate areas that might introduce "problems" the methodology that does not leave any room for error. Since research is usually conducted in order to find an answer to a question, some of the information often times
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I did not know at the time what it was --- as far as I was concerned I had inadvertently created Salicylic acid which happens to be what most students ended up with in attempts to produce baking soda. My research project was to identify what it was we were missing in the procedure: how we could perfect the experiments so the lab could save on chemicals that ended used for naught in many failed chemical experimentation.

At the end had produced a variety of Salicylic acid related compounds and somewhere in there, there was Aspirin (Jeffreys PP 38-40) which still needed to be rendered safe but I realized I had inadvertently produced a skin exfoliator and had not even come close to producing a stable enough compound to turn into Aspirin and I stumbled on some sort of chemical fragrance in the process. My lecturer could have told me this would happen but then I know better for having physically experimented with it and presented my findings. Sometimes the best way to learn is by trial and error – the very premise on which the concept of research is based.

I was invited to participate in a research project at a home for disabled people to measure the psychological effects of putting mentally challenged people in a supported employment program (Wehman p. 167-182). The hypothesis
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