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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 26

      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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    2. yds‏ @yds Aug 26
      Replying to @GidMK

      I think I know what you are thrusting at and am sympathetic but I don’t think I can agree with your redefinition of research. How would you operationalize that exactly? One does need to make decisions and has limited time to peruse the (anyway often quite sparse) literature.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 26
      Replying to @yds

      I would say there's a big difference between decision-making on a personal level and actually doing research 👍

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        2. yds‏ @yds Aug 26
          Replying to @GidMK

          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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        3. yds‏ @yds Aug 26
          Replying to @yds @GidMK

          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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        1. Duncan Bell  ❤️ 🇺🇸‏ @Duncan_Bell Aug 26
          Replying to @GidMK @yds

          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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        1. Jason Andrade‏ @jasonandrade Aug 27
          Replying to @GidMK @yds

          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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