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Reading Statistics and Research

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In the first edition of this book, I claimed that humanity could be divided into three groups: (1) those who conduct their own research studies, (2) those who do not for- mally engage in the research process but nonetheless encounter the results of others’ investigations, and (3) those who are neither “makers” nor “consumers” of research claims. Now, nearly 40 years since I made that statement, I still believe that every person on the face of the Earth can be classified into one of those three groups. However, it is clear to me that the relative sizes and the needs of the three groups are different now than they were in 1974 (when the first edition of this book was published) or even in 2008 (when the fifth edition appeared).
Regarding the size of the three groups mentioned, the first group (the “doers” of research) has grown slightly larger, whereas the second group (the “consumers” of research) has expanded geometrically over the past few years. The odds are extremely high that any randomly selected person belongs to one of these two groups. The first would be populated with lots of professors, any graduate student preparing to write a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, most employees of the many research units located in both public and private organizations, and a handful of independent researchers.

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Series Title

Reading Statistics and Research

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Publisher

USA : Pearson Education, Inc., 2012

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1-593

Language

English

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13: 978-0-13-217863-

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Edition

6th Edtion

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Research

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