Dear RG users,
Every research finding is subjected to different kinds of drawbacks. How can we indeed evaluate the quality of a typical research before considering its conclusion and recommendations for evidence based practice?
Reflections are appreciated in advance
The setup of any experiment is of primordial importance for the quality of any results. Badly designed or executed experiments are prone to give mediocre or unreliable results. If you are an expert in a certain field you can recognize badly designed experiments, as you know the pitfalls in designing that type of studies.
It is even harder to detect badly executed studies or even worse deleted or falsified data.
So it is a matter of experience in the field, gut feelings and trust in the scientists, who did and reported the work. If the results are totally unexpected or not properly explained, a bell should ring!
Select the best co-worker in data collection, data storage, data analysis, and data interpretation.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
There are few methods to find the solution. in my opinion,
Findings rooted from R.Objectives (RO).If you satisfy the RO it is the findings.
Is your question on ensuring the best quality in your own work or in evaluating the results published by others? This will make quite a difference.
1. Be ethical in the conduct.
2. Conduct reasonable literature review on the subject
3. Get your Methods (design, population, recruitment, statistics and so on) right.
4. Again, be ethical in your interpretations of findings.
5. Acknowledge your sources.
Collect better data/inputs and apply relevant statistical tools, you will find better results.
in addition to what colleagues suggestion, Don't forget to validate your results
Thank you all, for the informative reflections. For C.A. (Kees) Kan inquiry, the question was not specific to my own work. Instead, for other scientific papers of course, including mine.
These are the elements of "trust" and "integrity" in science.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
First, the authors must be ethical (integrity, non-subjectivity, avoidance of bias and so on) in the whole process.
Second, the paper must be subjected into peer review process.
Third, the conduct must be methodical (good design, sampling, analysis and so on).
Forth, author must be objective in the interpretations of findings.
Five, wholesome discussion and good conclusion.
With the aforementioned, the quality of the research outcome can be guaranteed.
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