http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2567 Conservative commentary served up in bite-sized bits Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2567&cpage=1#comment-9961 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:12:03 +0000 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2567#comment-9961 Yes, you are correct, of course. I guess I’m echoing the folks who were seated near me in the airport when this news came across CNN. (“We needed a study to tell us this?”) That this should be considered “news”, never mind that it had to be studied, speaks to how many moral lessons our society has forgotten.

]]> http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2567&cpage=1#comment-9960 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:49:41 +0000 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=2567#comment-9960 In academia, the basics must be measured before you can build on them to have bigger findings. Furthermore, there are so many poorly done studies that a well-done study, even if it finds an intuitive result, is extremely valuable. This kind of research is essential to policy and other social research. Please keep academia honest, but also please understand and appreciate what academia produces.

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