We've definitely a culture of "being right" which is how we are trained in biomedical paradigm. Hierarchy of science reinforces this.
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I drew this Mr Nerd...to try to reframe what science is about - specifically for food-health where its more than an RCTpic.twitter.com/wvpEhJT1kq
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Replying to @WeDietitians @hertzpodcast
I think it might work better as a Venn diagram? b/c I think there's a lot of overlap here btwn areas. With policy (ideally) at the centre
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For example, I think quant is very heavily tied into working out how much something will cost
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But yeh, I think a lot of quant researchers prefer not to look at other methods b/c they are subjective and science is about "being right"
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Even though there are a lot of questions that you just can't really answer with quantitative methods
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Venn diagrams I find difficult to represent "weighting" of each - but worth a play
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Qual researchers I also find defensive bc they're still pitching themselves against quant - we are competing, we are aligning, partners
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So our methodologies are also beginning to limit our own scope - "why can't I write what I did rather than retro fitting it to a label?
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Yeh I think that too often the objective truth is seen as the only goal, when sometimes it's pretty much impossible to be objective
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Replying to @GidMK
"What to eat to achieve optimal human health" is one of those questions. Although, if we reframe "health" it'll give a clue
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Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK
This is also the point where we throw in "it's complex" - complexity is what science is there for, if we apply it without agenda
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