What constitutes research?

[Kovalevskaya]

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I currently work on clinical trials as a study coordinator. Does this constitute research? I obviously am not the one writing the protocols, but I do know how to run a clinical trial because of this job.

 

[HybridEarth]

Do you devise or contribute hypotheses? Do you carry out analysis of data?

 

[LizzyM]

Research: Systematic observations designed to generate or contribute to new knowledge.

Being a clinical trials study coordinator is comparable to being a lab tech. You get to see how it is done but you don't have any decision making responsibility. It is okay but not optimal.

 

[Goro]

No.

The nature of Science, as LizzyM has pointed out, is to ask a question in the form of having a hypothesis, and then answer it. But descriptive Science is still Science. So if you're researching clams in Tahiti, that's still research.

I currently work on clinical trials as a study coordinator. Does this constitute research? I obviously am not the one writing the protocols, but I do know how to run a clinical trial because of this job.

 

[mimelim]

I currently work on clinical trials as a study coordinator. Does this constitute research? I obviously am not the one writing the protocols, but I do know how to run a clinical trial because of this job.

No, for the reasons listed above.