Doing your own research is HARD!
The BIG difference isn't a question of IF you're doing research, but rather HOW. There are many levels, and the level you're at makes all the difference.
Opinions & Speculation
If you mainly get your information from opinions and speculation, you're doing the lowest form of research. You're not alone. Everybody is in this category in one, shape or form, because nobody is an expert in everything. But it's in this category that we have all the tension and conflict in our lives, because people tend to fight using their emotions because they don't have good access and understanding of the data.
Expert Opinions
When we want to know more about a topic, we often turn to experts. However; this is where you get into the media cloud, all of your favorite apps, organizations, and news platforms that are filled with so-called experts that it makes it really hard to know who to trust!
Scientific Process
To go beyond experts, and start working to find truth yourself, you need to start using the scientific process. This is where thing get really tough:
At you have to learn special skills like how to identify and remove:
And even if you learn all the skills and processes, doing great research is a tremendously tedions task that requires lots of:
Truth!
After all of your A/B testing, meta-analysis, double-blind randomized control trails, and systematic reviews, you get much closer to an amazing thing called Truth! Finally, you can answer your questions with confidence, and share your results with the world!
ProTruth
The social research platform
To help the world transition from social media to social research, we are building ProTruth. A platform that feels like social media, but is designed from the ground up to help you answer your greatest questions and do your own research like real experts do.