What are some hindrances to research?

Answer 1

Scientific Research Hindrances

1. Tradition. This is accepting that customs, beliefs, practices and superstitions are true and part of our daily lives. Even it is not true, we are always apply this in our lives w/o applying a scientific investigation.

2. Authority. This is accepting anything w/o a question, the opinion w/c the person has a big name to the authority w/o using any scientific investigation if it's true. For example, when an ordinary man says smoking is bad for your health, they might laugh at you or ignore you.

3. Inaccurate Observation. This is describing wrongly what is observed. For example, four people are outside the hotel, wearing short skirts and pants. Some people will say they have no manners. The fact is that they are attending a party.

4. Overgeneralization. This is establishing a pattern out of a few instances. E.g., he went to Pearl Farm Beach Resort on Davao. From the name, it is producing pearls. So he concludes that there are many pearls in Davao. He doesn't go to other places to see if there are many pearls in that province.

5. Selective Observation. This is persisting to believe an observed pattern from overgeneralization and ignoring others. For example, when Filipinos hear a foreign song, and they observed that they are more pleasing to hear than local songs, they would say that foreign music are better than local songs w/o knowing that some of the local songs are also pleasing to hear.

6. Made-up Information. This is making up information to explain away confusion. For example, a buyer bought goods worth Php150.00 and paid Php200.00. Then the cashier mistakenly gives a change of Php60.00. He concludes that the cashiers in the store are not practiced. Now he comes back to the store to find the cashier that gave him excess change. Then he realized the cashier was kind. Instead of thinking he is kind after all, he will use some bad words to judge him and not realizing it.

7. Illogical Reasoning. This is attributing something to another w/o any logical basis. For example, it will rain because there are two weeks that are sunny day. There is no logic after all. It is not cloudy. There are no low pressure areas. He/she doesn't find any scientific investigations to find out if it will rain or not.

8. Ego involvement in understanding. This is giving an explanation when one finds himself an unfavorable situation. For example, he got low grades. Now the mother knew it, and got mad to his son for what he did, not because she's mad to her son. The son explained that because his classmate is the favorite student. He does not make any effort to examine himself, to improve his studies, etc.

9. Mystification.This is attributing to supernatural power, the phenomena that cannot be understood. This is accepting that there are things that are beyond our intelligence, like spirits, ghosts, or something that people think that are out of this world.

10. To err is human.This is an attitude that admits the fallibility of man. When he made a mistake, he will not study why he had committed this, and how he will correct it and make some effort to avoid this mistake again.

11. Dogmatism. This is an addition. This is an unwritten policy of certain institutions and governments prohibiting the study of topics that are believed to run counter to the established laws. For example, he will research about polygamy and try it, w/o knowing that is against the doctrines and laws of the government. But if he is a Moslem, he can do it. Some laws are different from one another