I could bet that Chris,Mike,Stephen,Paul,Bill,John,and Scott(the -out-of-office reply dude) never run a pilot study but there was a time when advisors and research supervisors would always recommend to "run a pilot" before undertaking some research,thesis,or dissertation.As a matter of fact Murray Sidman in a work titled Tactics in Scientific Research seemed to have recommended doing pilot studies.Although there are many reasons given to running a pilot,such as methodologicaland other issues,it does appear that the procedure was frowned upon. I think that the major criticism was that a pilot study was still a valid experiment-so in some sense one was performing two experiments.The other criticism was probably philosophical: entering research with preliminary projected results is really not cool from a scientific perspective. One thing I would say about the animal pilot studies-it tells us which animals are likely to die and that is a no no for statistical analysis.Just curious what would have happened if Milgram and Rosenhan(Tipsters' favorite punching bag) had run a pilot. In a theoretical psychology state of mind.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2551 or send a blank email to leave-2551-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
