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Old 01-09-2009, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by preciousjeni View Post
I find that results of studies are presented, but there's not a lot of information about how they came to the conclusions they did.
There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of studies. I'll chalk it up to your experience with the studies that you have read without knowing whether these were refereed journals, whether you actually read the full studies, how many studies you are basing your statements on, etc.

My experiences have been different. 98% of the hundreds of studies that I have read are in line with the standard which is to provide an abstract to give a brief overview, lit review to explain the background, detailed methods and results, and a discussion/conclusions/implications to wrap it up. That's also the going rate when we write a research article to submit to most refereed journals.

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But, if they're looking to actually do something with the information, that's not really being accomplished....
That depends on where you are looking and what you are expecting.

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