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Elico Sifuma October 13th 2011 There is no hope of doing perfect research Research is a term that can be used to imply various meanings. However, it all comes down to the process of searching or looking for knowledge. It can also be described as an investigative process that is systematic and that seeks to establish facts. Research can also be referred to as a problem solving process for either a new or emergent issue. It is a process of developing some new non-existing theories. Therefore to cut the chase, research can be described as any process that entails gathering of facts, data and information. This gathering is usually for the sole purpose of ensuring the advancement of knowledge (Oxford, 1). The various classification of research includes artistic research, scientific research, historical research etc, which depends on how the research is approached While some people do believe that there is hope of doing perfect research, I tend to believe otherwise. One of the major reasoning behind this notion is the biasness that a researcher will always have towards the research topic. This is because all researchers are humans who have their own personal feelings no matter how professional we may want to pretend to be. Most researchers would already have chosen sides of a certain research topic even before embarking on the research itself. A perfect example of biasness to research involves topic selection for a certain research paper. While selecting a topic for a research paper at the university, I went straight to Open source is the way to go Well, in the first place, being a student at the

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time, and generally having all my money budgeted for, I was a greet fun of free downloads from the internet. As it came to be, open source formed the greatest part of all downloads. Therefore in essence, I had already decided on what conclusion to draw even before caring g out the actual research. Before printing out my questionnaires and passing them out to the computer science community or searching through the internet for some sources, the conclusion had long been draw. This just shows how biased I out rightly was yet at the time I was a researcher in training who ought to bring out the facts as they are. The above biasness coupled with other research errors can make the research outcomes totally untrue. One such research error that could occur is the use of a wrong sample space. Even if the researchers were to try their best to be irrationally, other errors are bound to occur. If the errors are totally ruled out, there is always the other issue of missing out on some important information which might make or break a certain conclusion The above coupled with other circumstances would thus make research to always be a process that goes on without an end. As such, it would only prove one point that research can never be perfect. Dont you ever wonder why a conclusion on some research made by a research is mostly always disputed by yet another research? Well the reason is that the research is imperfect. In fact, there is so much evidence of things having happened in the past which have come to make some research done in the past irrelevant or inconclusive (Thomas, 115).

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With this minor yet captivating evidence that I hope will not be disputed later and turned into false statements, I think that there is truly no hope of doing perfect research ever. I fully agree that your gender, history, class, religion etc will always be on the standby to ensure that your research is affected (Etienne, 1). This factor will actually ensure that you are not able to produce a nice research. Adding this to errors that might be encountered, then really there is no hope of doing perfect research. Despite the understated fact, one does not have an excuse of not carrying out research. This is because it is only human to disagree and dispute facts put forward by our fellow humans.

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Works Cited Etienne Benson, Pursuing the perfect research postdoc American Psychological Association 4 Apr. 2010. Web 12th October 2011. < http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2006/09/postdoc.aspx> Oxford Online Dictionary, research Oxford University Press. Web 12th October 2011. < http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/research> Thomas, Herbert, Baily, The Connoisseur,Volume 215, National Magazine Co., 1985