The enemies of development research can easily be identified. First enemy is the research sponsorer, second is the researcher himself & third one is the intermediaries who are engaged to collect data. The sposorer believes from the day one that he knows the reasults before the data collection started even. He forms an hypothesis & does not want to test it systematically. If the results do not confirm to his hypothesis he starts blaming the process of research & the integrity of researchers. The energy what he engages in criticising if used in facilitating the research design the quality would have been better. The second enemy is the researcher who comes from the Jamat of professors who treat any research activity like Ph D thesis. They are more interested in the size of report being not less than 300 pages. They know from their core of heart that almost all Ph D thesis are junk. Third enemy of research are the data collectors who think thay can reproduce the opinion of respondents themselves what ever may be the sample size.
Dr S K Trivedi
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Its a good collection indeed.
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