Has Creativity Research Become a Trivial Pursuit?

Internal Validity Is Not a Trivial Pursuit

The goal of gerontological nursing research is to improve the health and well-being of older adults. Yet, a variety of critics have faulted this and other health care research for failing to influence public health policy and decision making. Research, critics say, has produced conflicting findings and esoteric reports that are not useful to public policy makers or clinicians. The conditions un...

Reasoning has become a luxury

It is being talked about all over the world; an editorial in the Economist of 19 October 2013 entitled " How Science Goes Wrong " reports a dramatic decline in the quality of scientific publications. Research has changed the world, now it needs to change itself, the subheading reads. The detailed report is based on facts which are difficult to disprove; an example being a Harvard biologist, Joh...

Has a Non - Trivial Invariant Subspace

In this paper, to solve the invariant subspace problem, contraction operators are classified into three classes ; (Case 1) completely nonunitary contractions with a non-trivial algebraic element, (Case 2) completely non-unitary contractions without a non-trivial algebraic element, or (Case 3) contractions which are not completely non-unitary. We know that every operator of (Case 3) has a non-tr...

Has screening mammography become obsolete?

The Ombudsman : Academic Research in MS / OR : Science or Trivial Pursuit ?

The Ombudsman column was created with the belief that academic journals ignore many important problems. Halse and Lilien, in the following paper, approach this issue by hoking at the reward systems in universities: do they encourage or discourage competent work on important problems? It is easy to do trivial work on important problems . . . but it is difficult to publish it. Far more profitable...