I don't know about Chris,Mike,Stephen,Bill,John,Scott,Peter,Paul, and Mary, but I think most labs run pilot studies...it's just not called that.
Nor is it especially demarcated with the PI proclaiming... Very well,................begin....................................the Pilot Study! Rather, one takes a boo at the data for the first few subjects and see if it's generally in line with expectations of the hypothesis. This has the generally beneficial effect of reminding hier scientist to plug in the recording device before subjecting the paid subject (often nowadays, potentially paid millions might be a better statement) to 2 hours of a learning protocol ! :-) --Mike On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 8:45 PM, michael sylvester <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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=13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f4720fb&n=T&l=tips&o=2551 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-2551-13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f472...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=2576 or send a blank email to leave-2576-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
