assignment 22

I have not done original research before.

I think what makes original research different from library research is that original research involves going "out in the field" to collect your own data on the population. Library research can be used as a base for original research- seeing what is already known about the population and giving some base knowledge. Some pros of original research are that you can form your own conclusions and study whatever you want. Some cons are that you need time, funds, and you need to make sure you have done everything according to guidelines to make sure that your research can be taken seriously. The pros of library research is that you don't have to do any work it's all been done for you and you just need to read things. The cons are that the research could be biased and not talk about the subject you're interested in.

The critical thinking skills in original research are observation, interpertation, analysis, inference, evaulation and explanation of the results.
In library research it would be interpertation, analysis, and evaulation.
I think all of these skills are very important in both types of research! If you miss one of the steps your research could be missing pieces or be misleading.

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The statistical information I found was about the Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in Prior Lake. It also included other reservations around Minnesota/ Wisconsin and some information about the people who make up their population. The information was collected from the Census Bureau. It doesn't really say how the information was collected but it does say that it includes 100% of the population which I find hard to believe. Maybe it was easier to contact each individual since tribes are smaller and it was 1975 so  maybe they actually sent people out to each household to take the survey. I think this didn't include how the information was collected because its from the government and they don't feel they need to disclose how they go about doing their surveys.

(1975). Statistical data for planning: Prior Lake Reservation. Billings, Mont.: The Group. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076653826



The scholarly journal article with statistics I found was from ESCO. It didn't talk about the Mdewakanton specifically, but it did talk about the Sioux (the Mdewakanton are a band of the Sioux). These statistics are based off women from the population and occurance of breast cancer and diabetes. This did say how the information was collected- women chose to participate and they used medical charts from a certain age group of participants. I think this did include how the data was collected because it was important to understanding the research. No one would believe their data if they didn't include the information they used to obtain the data.

Mahmoodian, S. (1997). Cervical and breast cancer screening rates in Sioux. Southern Medical Journal, 90(3), 316.