Ask HN: How To Do Research?

1 pointmihirchronicles6 years ago2 comments

I came across this fascinated research report on Covid this morning https://project-evidence.github.io/.

This poses the question on what are some of the resources that shows or teaches one how to do a deliberate and thorough research?

I have found one How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab? http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41487/AI_WP_316.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Are there any other good resources like this one?

MrCoffee7 6y

It depends on what type of research you want to do? For example, this is very good resource for medical research: https://rise.articulate.com/share/soW5Pvyk3T4Ib-P4A7gS6AFqyO...

gus_massa 6y

For the report is more like a collection of cherrypicked information than good research. It was discused here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897708

One of the comments that I think is important was made by nicolas_t:

Haven't read much yet. But the first point already doesn't inspire much confidence. "This market is less than 9 miles away from The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 9 miles away means that it's at the opposite of the city.

I mean, that text is trying to make it seem like they are close to each other when actually it just means that both are in the same city. 9 miles is not a small distance in a big city like wuhan.

It's like saying that Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty.

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