I am continuing to receive questions in the format of “I have heard that…”. Sometimes I do a quick Google search and learn something new. Oftentimes, it is something I have already covered and usually shown to be incorrect. In order to prevent this, I am listing the basics to remember when researching.
1) Nothing is too complicated when you’re truly interested in something.
If for example, it is about genetics, take baby steps. Read slowly and don’t skip anything you don’t understand. Look things up. Even if it takes a year to read an actual study, it is better to limit yourself to one and get it rather than reading many and still being unsure what the study was about.
This video only has 1,500 views, yet “godlikeproductions” articles about aliens have millions. Imagine everyone spending their time listening to this video and referencing everything they didn’t know yet and wound up reading up more on the subject matter instead of consuming a bunch of troll posts and then having the nerve to share it on Facebook confusing other people with them.
2) You cannot allow pre-existing opinions to dictate and limit what you pay attention to.
I see it all the time where people are skipping anything showing their theory to be questionable and rather lose themselves in articles supporting theirs, even when no proof is being offered.
3) When you come to a dead end, look for the open doors and enter.
Don’t allow blank space to be filled by your or other people’s opinions. When the next step requires you to believe, leave it. Every month, new and amazing research is being published, so it is better to wait and see than wander off into a dreamworld and end up confused.
4) Don’t stop looking for more information once you are on the right track.
You never know everything, but you can either continue gathering information or wind up stuck. Every research leads to more and it pays off to become somewhat of an expert in a specific field.
5) Look at the sample sizes of studies and know when it makes sense to continue looking for studies backing up the one that has given you information.
Don’t base facts on small studies or studies limited to smaller and specific locations. A great example is the old claim that Berbers were 40% rhesus negative. If you look at small studies, you can actually happen to hit an extended family of rhesus negatives and the results may not actually represent and reflect rhesus negative frequencies of your ethnic group or tribe.
6) Never pay attention to any article claiming to be scientific without looking at the actual study (often mis)interpreted.
If no reference to an actual study, ignore or look for a real study on your own. Scientific magazines tend to have writers creating misleading headlines to get attention. It is not uncommon. Even when you get information from Wikipedia, look at the reference, follow it to where the proof and actual data is located and don’t assume anything unless you do this to back up what you are looking for.
7) Let your research lead you to the conclusion.
Allow the facts to guide you. Be persistent. Let theories inspire, but not box you in or limit you.
I always encourage everyone doing their own research and sharing it freely. I prefer people questioning my research rather than “believing it”. We live in a world of beliefs and lacking facts. This is the only rhesus negative website where facts dominate. And some of the facts have been brought to me by readers like yourselves. I appreciate the trust some bring to me and believe I have earned it. But I have also noticed that some who blindly believe me, do so with questionable material as well. So it is always good to get into the habit of looking something up and reading the actual studies referenced when something hits your interest.
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Bravo. Couldn’t have been said better. It applies to anything you are studying or into. I also feel there are a lot of people pushing agendas with “research” and findings so be wary.
I’m 78 today, l got one card and one text from two special friends of decades standing, and three online good wishes, but nothing from my family at all, all six of my over forty and over fifty, and just three days ago, one sixty year old kid(s). l’ve been researching lifelong about my blood, and its effect on them as well as me, about the damage Anti-D shoved in me in every pregnancy, did to them inside my womb, and their own bad reactions to vaccines too. Not least, l’ve been researching my very special gifts of lifetime paranormal, accepted by the church who not only told me l’m a naturally ‘specially gifted’ Medium, but that l must learn to accept and live with it back in 1973. And finally, all about aliens, and UFOs, which l’ve also experienced since l was four in 1949. And all the different related searches related to that, to all these subjects and their different truths, or not, as the case may be. Because along with the paranormal, l’ve experienced all of them lifelong. And trust me, l never wanted them, never deliberately used them, never played with them. They played with me, hence me running to the church, begging them to make it stop. I hated knowing some would die, and exactly when and how. And a Bishop getting involved was the last friend l expected in my corner, and accepting my truth. And me being splashed across front pages. Because the Bishop asked me to talk to the media due to big stuff in the news at the time that he couldn’t handle when media came to him. About paranormal, so he passed the buck to.ne, asked me to meet the media, l was, ironically, an answer to his prayer, just as he was for me. God is very crafty, He interweaves our needs. I also developed Toxaemia which afforded me lifelong rheumatoid arthritis which causes immune deficiency condition and blood wise, l’m allergic to all meds both before it, and worse after it, especially vaccines and l can’t even wear headsets, earphones, or hearing aids. I have no left eardrum and am recorded deaf that side since childhood. And have been warned in the 1960s not to fly in case my good ear drum explodes and disintegrates, like my left one did. They both hurt in winds and draughts, and only cotton wool eases them. They’re why l can never swim. I’ve researched many many other things, like Criminal Law, and Criminal Psychology, and taken a PI course as well. I’ve done so many courses l’ve forgotten them, l was trying to recall them yesterday. I suddenly remembered being offered a free degree course in English Lit, by a professor of English at his university. I’d left school at fourteen with no documents, l’m totally self taught. He’d been shown twelve pages of my writing by his bursar and phoned me and asked me to visit him, he said he knew l’d wanted to go to university and that by age 24, l was a mum of five, and a late one at 38, that l’d had no time for me. “You’d walk it! I’m offering it for free Jeanette, l’ll be your tutor, and in return, you teach me your job, because l wish l’d gone for journalism now!” I was doing trade and industry writing for my local paper. The editor read a thousand words l wrote, and offered me the job. Just like that. I was so surprised and snatched his hand off. His only unqualified journalist he ever employed, he said. And when the professor heard of me and asked.me to visit him, sit in, watch him taking students for an afternoon,no went and sat and watched. He was like a kid, so excitedly wanting my approval. Then, l’m a mum of six aren’t l? 😉 We mum’s surpass and surprise ourselves, often. l told him my editor had said l couldn’t work ‘in house’ without a degree, for fear of offending the university (degree) journalists above me. So, l got the pittance salary, and no byline. And no chance of progress. “You’re the best read journalist l’ve ever employed Jeanette, and the only unqualified journalist l’ve ever taken on.” But, “no byline, no in-house”. He’d upset the boffins above me if he did. Sigh, another life time ago l might have got that foot in the door… Hey ho, my (then unknown to me) Asperger husband decided to go into another melt down when prof offered me a degree course, and to have another breakdown, and leave his job in social services, middle managemen no less, helped along by my written skills from the start And to yet again, move us all across country again. He did this with frequency, l’ve lost count if the jobs and moves we made across 29 homes together. He did it whenever l got offers for myself that might mean l got a life aside from him and our Asperger son. Some of us have to study not only our own chosen subject, but some we never asked to know about as well, for our survival and our sanity. Like social work management and home education across the board for a late child for 17 years from birth. Instead of a few months, they control the years, whilst l sought sanity in researching my rare blood, and all things related, to my health from 1962 until five years ago, when l finally breathed in, breathed out, and said, “Shit, so Lord, that’s where you took me… all the way to hell and back, and now, at last, l know all the answers l was seeking, and now, l wish l didn’t!”
Forgive typos, bad arthritis day, hands agony. I’m buying some very classy modern splints tomorrow:-)