Workbook for Volume 1 – Part V – Section #4.3 – The Template for Reading Research Papers (Analytical Perspective)
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Part V – Section #4: Template for Reading Research Papers (Analytical Perspective)
Start with the Citation: Author(s) (Year), “Title”, Publication
After the First Step for reading research papers (see page 2: One-Page Summary), continue with the second step by taking notes for all levels of analysis in the Template, and for all parts of the paper. This list, focused on the “Perspective” level of analysis in the Template combines types of research with types of researchers introduced in Volume 1 – Part V: Section #2. It gives readers a starting point to develop custom questions to identify the analytical perspective of a paper, and its author(s).
- Descriptive Analyst:
o Isaiah Berlin’s “Hedgehog” with specialized, top-down, reductionist world-view
- Descriptive Clinician:
o Herbert Weisberg’s “Clinician” that connects plausible relationships from ambiguous, concrete ecologies
- Prescriptive Modeler:
o Formalizes empirical departures from their “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses”
- Predictive Statistician:
o Herbert Weisberg’s “Statistician” that estimates abstract levels of doubt that results from sample averages may plausibly come from random variability, or
o Answering individual “Why” questions based on Judea Pearl’s Structural Causal Models, Directed Acyclic Graphs, and Counterfactuals.
- Pragmatic Synthesist:
o Isaiah Berlin’s “Fox” with multi-disciplinary, bottom-up, wholistic world-view
- Agenda Polemicist:
o James Carse’s “Master Player” of “Finite Games”, focused on winning the argument
Sample Questions:
- Does this research have a (i) Descriptive, (ii) Prescriptive, (iii) Predictive, (iv) Pragmatic, or (v) Agenda-driven perspective?
- Does this author have the perspective of an (i) Analyst, (ii) Clinician, (iii) Modeler, (iv) Statistician, (v) Synthesist, or a (vi) Polemicist?
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