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• Research is a systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to solve problems, which helps us make informed decisions, understand the world around us, and improve quality of life.
• Research provides a better understanding of the world we live in, helps us gain knowledge about various fields, and enables us to understand diseases better, develop effective treatments, and improve our overall health.
• Research plays an important role in guiding us towards right decisions.
• Research drives innovation and progress, and has played an important role in advancing technology and medicine.
• Research helps us solve problems by identifying root causes of problems and developing effective solutions.
• Research is a process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to answer questions.
• To qualify as research, the process must have certain characteristics: it must be systematic, controlled, rigorous, valid and verifiable, empirical and critical.
• Systematic research implies that the procedure adopted to undertake an investigation follow a certain logical sequence, with the different steps not being taken in a haphazard way.
• Controlled research is carried out in a way that minimizes the effects of other factors affecting the relationship, as is often the case in the physical sciences.
• Rigorous research ensures that the procedures followed to find answers to questions are relevant, appropriate and justified.
• Valid and verifiable research implies that whatever conclusions are drawn are correct and can be verified by the researcher and others.
• Empirical research is based upon hard evidence gathered from information collected from real life experiences or observations.
• Critical research involves critical scrutiny of the procedures used and the methods employed, ensuring that the process adopted and the procedures used can withstand critical scrutiny.
• Intellectual curiosity is a characteristic of a researcher, who undertakes deep thinking and inquiry of the things and situations around him.
• Prudence in research is demonstrated by the researcher, who conducts his research study at the right time and at the right place wisely, efficiently, and economically.
• Healthy criticism is a characteristic of a researcher, who is always doubtful as to the truthfulness of the result.
• Intellectual honesty is a characteristic of a researcher, who is honest to collect or gather data or facts in order to arrive at honest results.
• Intellectual creativity is a characteristic of a researcher, who always creates new researches.
• MEDICINE -Enables us to understand diseases better, develop effective treatments, and improve our overall health.
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -Helps us understand human behavior, social trends, and societal issues.
• Empirical This means that any conclusion drawn are based upon hard evidence gathered from information collected from real life experiences or observations.
• Valid and verifiable This concept implies that whatever we conclude on the basis of our findings is correct and can be verified by us and others.
• Rigorous You must be careful in ensuring that the procedures followed to find answers to questions are relevant, appropriate and justified.
• Controlled In real life there are many factors that affect an outcome
• Systematic This implies that the procedure adopted to undertake an investigation follow a certain logical sequence