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Sophia Basaldua-SunWe hear this phrase a lot in society right now: “Do your own research.” And, in the internet age we all get to live with the consequences of that perception that reliable research is just freely available to us. So, as a one time professional researcher (as many of you know my Ph.D. Is in comparative literature) I wanted to write about what makes that impossible. It boils down to this: well done research requires a lot of context. It isn’t possible to pick up any topic and “research” it with equal skill. Especially in this era, when propaganda and misinformation are so prevalent. And, unfortunately, in an anti-intellectual environment, doing your own research seems to mean disregarding experts in the name of pursuing your own gut. There’s a phrase for that, it’s “confirmation bias,” when we go on the hunt for the information or resources that confirm what we want to believe. Now, can experts be wrong? Sure. And a lot of scholarly debate involves drilling down into nuance to correct the incorrect or add specificity to where things have been too broad. But research requires a baseline acceptance that certain resources are basically reliable, that they rely on concrete quantitative and qualitative data when available. That primary and secondary sources have been utilized to verify claims. That, as you research, you are drawing from a wide range of perspectives that have been properly vetted. In doing my research for this series I’ve relied on investigative journalism, peer reviewed sources, official documentation by human rights organizations. I disregard unverified or unverifiable claims and I do that through cross-referencing. I also question my perspective, my motives if I find myself pursuing an unverifiable phantom. I learned to do all of this through a decade of training. The skill doesn’t come cheap and it continues to cost time and resources to maintain. It isn’t static, it requires repetition with every new subject. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fountainpen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fountainpen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/notes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#notes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/journalspread?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalspread</a>

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