People often say that they've "done their research" on a topic. For some context, I read about 5 scientific papers a day, maybe 1,500 a year, and I can count on my fingers the number of things I've genuinely done my research on
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Certainly perusing the literature on an obscure topic to make an informed decision is a very different action than that of doing research to expand the frontiers of human knowledge. But isn’t the colloquial usage of “doing your research” as the former pretty easily understood?
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People say “my wife is really going to kill me for this” but I’ve been a detective for 20 years and I can count on one hand the number of spousal murders that arose from said behavior...
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Then perhaps accepting the semantic difference is the right path here? We can say "I've researched it" to each other when choosing an Italian restaurant to attend and not be claiming to be a research fellow at a leading institution. Cyclist: "I was flying.." Pilot: "Hold on...."
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With that in mind, is it possible there are two entirely different meanings that can be assigned to the phrase “I’ve done my research” and very few actual grey areas or overlaps in interpretation given context provided?
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