Research Methodology

Background

In the 1600s the origin of modern scientific method occurred in Europe.

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  Copernicus: A scientific model that could be verified and checked by observation.

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  Tycho Brahe: Accurate instrumental observations to confirm the model.

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  Johannes Kepler: Theoretical examination of experimental data.

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  Galileo Galilei: Scientific laws developed from experiment.

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  Rene Descartes: Mathematics to quantitatively show theoretical ideas.

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  Isaac Newton: Theoretical derivation of an experimentally confirmable model.

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  Karl Popper: Scientific theory should make predictions and can be tested and verified (Frederick, 2011; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method).

Objective Of Research

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  To gain knowledge with a phenomenon or to achieve new perceptions into it.

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  To draw accurately the characteristics of a particular situation, individual or a group.

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  To determine the time frame with which something occurs or with which it is associated with something else.

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  To test a theory of a causal relationship between variables that is to analyses process or phenomenon.

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  To discover new facts; verify and test important facts.

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  To develop new concepts, theories and scientific tools to solve and understand the problems.

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  To find answers to scientific, nonscientific and social problems and to overcome the problems occurring in everyday life (Gogoi and Goowalla, 2015; Bhawna, and Gobind 2015).