View PassageThere are no rigid rules to do research. Like cycling or swimming you do it by doing it. As you do it, you learn to do it better. Or give up. Analytical, experimental and other technical skills will prove useful. Knowledge of your field of research will save time. On many instances of doubt, common sense is sufficient and on many occasions of failure, perseverance a must. Extraordinary intelligence is welcome. Genius is rare.
Obviously, communication in all forms is essential for recognition and success. Research and semi-technical articles, monographs, formal and popular books, seminars, talks and lectures, incentive-less web writing, all could and should be done consistently. Staying motivated for enough years is crucial to enhance your chance for delivering, if not anything outstanding, something substantial. To give a weak analogy: Just a boundary or a six makes us literally a one hit wonder. Scoring a century, with or without boundaries or sixers, is still a commendable effort.
Can research method(s) or method(s) to do science be capsuled into an algorithm yielding assured success, irrespective of the user? Such attempts of algorithms are mostly met with counter examples of scientific advancements that happened without practicing those algorithms. To reproduce from Cosma’s Scientific Method note, a quote by Sir Peter Medawar:
If the purpose of scientific methodology is to prescribe or expound a system of inquiry or even a code of practice for scientific behavior, then scientists seem to be able to get on very well without it. Most scientists receive no tuition in scientific method, but those who have been instructed perform no better as scientists than those who have not. Of what other branch of learning can it be said that it gives its proficients no advantage; that it need not be taught or, if taught, need not be learned?
What should be the right approach to research?- Published on 29 Sep 15a. Using analytical skills and no specific domain knowledge
b. Learning everything that is needed before starting research
c. Using perseverance as a key to successfully completing research
d. Using only those techniques that will ensure superlative research results
e. To succeed in research, only good research work and nothing else matters
ANSWER: Using perseverance as a key to successfully completing research
Option 1 - Check para 1, sentence 6
Option 2 - Para 1, sentence 3
Option 3 - Para 2, sentence3
Option 4 - Para 1, sentence 5 does advocate good technical skills. But nowhere does the passage talk of using only those techniques that guarantee results. The passage talks of employing all possible skills and learning by doing.
Option 5 - Para2, sentence 1 clearly states communication is necessary for success
