In a previous post I wrote about how I tried to find the copyright owner of the diagram The Island of Research and how I made contact with Ernest Harburg.
http://barbourians.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/the-island-of-research/
The journey through The Island of Research is as follows (although it isn’t always a linear process!):
- City of Hope
- Bay of Literature
- River of Words
- Jungle of Authority
- Problem Range
- Pinnacle of Dogmatism
- Peaks of Confusion
- HYPOTHESIS
- Money Pass
- Study Design
- Instruments
- Entree Tactics
- Redesign Path
- Pretest
- Ridge of Boredom
- Population Data Run
- Forest of Fatigue
- Serendipity Mine
- Coding
- canyon of Despair
- Mount Where-are-we-going?
- Data Analysis Jungle
- Data Fever-Breeding Ground
- D.D.D. Delata of dirty Data
- More Data Trail
- Wreck Heap of Discarded Hypotheses
- Where-am-I Fog
- Bay of Leisure
- to Administration Island
- The Great Fund-less dessert
- No Budget Trail
- Plains of Report Writing
- Rewrite Trail
- Bog of Lost Manuscripts
- Delta of Editors
Surrounded by:
- The Sea of Theory
- Know-it-all Isle