Senior  Seminar:

 

                                                            

 REAL  LIFE  RESEARCH   {ExtraCredit Analysis Paper}

 


 

Based on 2/7/2012 radio broadcast  

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}
 If linked pages do not work to play the audio, try opening-in-a-new-window /or/ copy & paste the URL's instead - see below. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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  
       
HINT #2 pointing toward  some applicable  utterances    
  1- “…what I’m curious about…”
  2- “ …control group(s)…”
  3- “ … scientific studies…  /… a scientific grip on this…”
  4- “ Brain scans to track brain transmitters”  
 

5- “… (there are) a lot of claims about how yoga can be an aphrodisiac…”

  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.”

  8 - “…Claims…”
  9 -  “ It makes a lot of sense, in a way…doesn’t it?”
  10 - “ … there’s a very strong  body of evidence..”
  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.”

 

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.”

  19- “… my own theory is…”
  20-  “It can be measured
  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.”
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

        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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2/7/2012:  FRESH AIR interview {37:41} available at  http://www.npr.org/2012/02/07/146463156/the-risks-and-rewards-of-practicing-yoga

 

 

2/10/2012:  TALK OF THE NATION-SCIENCE FRIDAY interview {20:53}  available at http://www.npr.org/2012/02/10/146697650/the-science-of-yoga-the-risks-and-the-rewards

page last edited for typos & links tested:  2/18/18