Evaluating Bias

Evaluating Bias in Research

The first step in the student’s guide to research is always defining the research question. A research question is a statement that seeks to solve a problem in the society or give an insight of a given situation or phenomenon that need to be known by the public or an issue that has been subjected to public debate without clear solution or information about it. It may also be an issue that has been earlier researched on but not conclusively done and thus there are still gaps and loopholes in the research that needs to be filled. For example, in the case given, there is still no adequate research to determine the link of some pharmaceutical drugs to heart problems and thus a student will develop and define a research questions that will try and provide conclusion about whether there is a link between some

One of the assumptions is the if a recommendation appears in print, the report must be valid and accurate. This is a form of bias that the drug makers or manufacturers and the researchers have used to exploit the readers. The readers will assume that since the report is recommended and published it must contained valid and well-researched information on the connections of some drugs to some heart diseases. In the case given, the manufacturer of Avandia, a diabetes drug together with some researchers and employers successful draft and published a report that compare there diabetes drugs and report that Avandia is the best. The readers believed so no thinking of the financial connection of the researchers and the drug maker that may have altered the report. Contrary to this, some researchers have proved that Avandia is linked to heart