Senior
Seminar:
REAL LIFE RESEARCH {ExtraCredit Analysis Paper}
Based on
FRESH AIR – NPR interview – w/ William Broad : THE SCIENCE OF YOGA; The risks and the rewards {37:41}
(NB: His book is structured mostly as a giant critical essay with a substantial Lit Review)
You can also use this alternate interview with same author which contains similar comments but with a more subjective interviewer & call in style: also broadcast on 2/10/12 — |
TALK
OF THE NATION/Science Friday – NPR interview w/ Wm Broad : THE SCIENCE OF YOGA:
The risks and the rewards {20:53} |
SUBMISSION DETAILS:___TBD____(flex date. ask)___
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EVEN OF YOU DO NOT CHOOSE TO DO THIS ASSIGNMENT
FOR EXTRA CREDIT, YOU MAY WANT TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST FOR AT LEAST 1
OTHER REASON:
As you listen to Mr. Broad speak, you get a demonstration of the sequencing of the INVESTIGATIVE process through the several sequenced steps:
curiosity-> claim-> gathering data-> Lit. review (read through previous studies) -> advocating | demonstrating preferred methodologies-> arguing for application of your claim to affect specific policies. This reflects your own current process as you work on your own project/study for this class.
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PROCEDURE: As you listen to the radio interview(s) select and three (3) utterances made by the researcher (or similarly specific ones of your own choosing) and apply them to a specific term/concept from this course's material covered so far.
HINT #1 | some relevant course concepts covered so far: | that were implied /referenced in between the lines | of the radio conversations |
EPISTEMOLOGICAL PARADIGMS | The ARGUMENT STRUCTURE [C-D-W] | POSITIVISM RESEARCH | |
EWOK vs FWOK | QUANTITATIVE vs QUALITATIVE | CULTURE | |
EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY | CULTURAL BIAS | INTERVIEWER BIAS | |
RESEARCHER BIAS |
CULTURAL NORMS
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HINT #2 | pointing toward some applicable utterances | ||
1- “…what
I’m
curious about…” |
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2- “ …control
group(s)…” |
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3- “ … scientific
studies…
/… a scientific grip on
this…” |
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4- “ Brain scans to
track brain transmitters” |
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5- “… (there are) a lot of claims about how yoga can be an aphrodisiac…” |
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6- “What do yoga practitioners claim and what does science have to say?” | |||
7 - “…wonderful science … that shows, that eliminates that these claims have a lot to them.” |
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8 - “…Claims…” | |||
9 - “ It makes a lot of sense, in a way…doesn’t it?” | |||
10 -
“ … there’s a
very strong
body of evidence..” |
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11 - “ … makes you feel better“… we’re just starting to figure out why.” | |||
12 - Aristotelian principles ( esp.. ETHOS) | |||
13 - “I am a science journalist and I’m looking at this through a scientific lens.” | |||
14 - “…where science is really starting to understand yoga.” | |||
15 - “…he said, ‘You have to know the value of this through scientific studies’…” | |||
16 - “ …uniform standards…” | |||
17 - “ As a science
editor, you know that science can’t address,
much
less answer many of the most
interesting questions in life.” |
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18 - “Science works
wonderfully ---at the things it can do. (It can’t provide every answer)
but it can take us
a
long way toward it.” |
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19- “… my own theory is…” | |||
20-
“It can be
measured” |
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21 - “ .. that’s not the yoga I know; it does this for me…” | |||
22 -
“ ….The Yoga
Industrial Complex…. IF they know (about the risk)
they ignore it.”
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Remember, you are not evaluating the research or the book’s content or even the author’s longer term agenda. Your goal is to show that you can listen to such an interview with researcher’s savvy mindset. You may want to start by looking at the terms highlighted in your textbook, at the chapter ends and/or in the glossary in order to see how things matches up.
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