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Research Methodology
註釋Difficulties that accompany normal life are obstacles to be avoided as far as possible. Researchers are always looking for interesting questions. There is a difference in the fact that obstacles to research can be opportunities or circumstances that require problem solving. All empirical findings and results should be subject to further investigation before being considered definitive. Because scientific knowledge is always provisional and therefore all empirical results and ideas are fundamentally suspect. Research, on the other hand, has the equally important function of establishing new knowledge claims as well as seeking more precise confirmation of existing knowledge claims. [citation needed] The first natural step in achieving this is to provide a characterization of the problem. According to Northrop, "research begins only when something is unsatisfactory, when habitual beliefs are inappropriate or questionable, when facts essential to clarifying one's concerns are unknown, and when relevant hypotheses are not even considered likely" (research begins (1966) "What you have at the beginning of an investigation is only the problem," said the researcher. "What you have at the beginning of an investigation is only the problem." only when something is unsatisfactory when the usual beliefs are insufficient or questionable when the essential facts are unknown to clarify the concerns and when (1966). The formulation of research questions not only serves an important academic purpose, but also an important social purpose. According to Merton, Broom, and Cottrell (1959), researchers have a responsibility to defend the use of their limited time and other resources in light of the demands placed on them by their work