Conducting
research is based on the fact that the researcher is searching for new
knowledge, prove a hypothesis, establish new ideas, solve existing problems and
come up with narrative facts. Based on the fact that human activities of an
individual may have limit but knowledge may have not indicate that knowledge of
a research conducted earlier may be irrelevant today whereas a whereas that
conducted today may be irrelevant tomorrow shows that there is no hope of a
perfect research.
The objectives of a researcher always change
and affect the researcher’s needs because of the varying issues in the society
such as politics, economics, religion culture and environment. These bring the
researcher in a condition that he has to find solutions of new problems in
daily life. This bring the fact that previous facts and findings become
insufficient to handle today’s problems and today’s knowledge end up being
insufficient tomorrow . A research is viewed as a systematic search for
knowledge, due to the fact that knowledge is endless then there is no research
that is deemed perfect.
Researches
are always subject to frequent examinations and evaluations. Many researches
can be carried out on the same topic but come up with different finds; this is
because of the varying aspect of the environment and the method of research.
For example a research can be conducted on popularity of two political
candidates, i.e. A and B and finds out that candidate A is more popular than B.
while another research is conducted on the same topic gives findings directly
opposite to the first research. Another reason making a research imperfect is
the fact that human beings are always emotional and rational. The researcher
carries this element in him and this causes biases and prejudice in the
research making it incorrect and objectives. Researchers are then not capable
to give correct answers to problems but increase the probability to have
accurate answers.
Due to the fact that time changes, then human
being must also change so as to develop. Human beings have been constantly
changing since the time of ancestors and have developed with the changing time.
Taking an example of development of vehicles, it started with development of a
wind driven vehicle by several Italians, then came the steam engine vehicles
from china by father Ferdinand Verbiest. Then came the first vehicle to operate
with coal gas designed by Etienne Lenoir which was followed by development of
oil driven vehicles by 1893 done by frank and Duryea. This have been after a
result of frequent research done to help come up with new knowledge to solve
problems that existed by then. This has developed to the new modern vehicles
which are highly efficient. With the recent research being on development of
electric cars indicates that research will never cease to such for new
knowledge with the past being seen as insufficient today.
As human beings develop day by day from
emerging of new technology and knowledge, there are always new methods of doing
thing which end up diminishing the importance of the past findings and
knowledge. A good example is the knowledge of astronomy which for many years
having been developing. New knowledge is discovered. In the past people had
only the knowledge of the nine planets but later last year scientist found out
that there was another planet which was similar to earth and called it Kepler
20 F. This was after the development of more powerful telescope called Nasa
space telescope. From this one can tell that due to the changing in development
of new ways of doing things past knowledge will seem useless today. Hence no
hope of doing a perfect research as every research will always be challenged
with new technology and changes with time.
In
conclusion, there is no hope of doing a perfect research due to factors such as
biases of the researcher, changing of objectives of the researcher due to
external environmental changes such as politics, society, economy and culture
and finally the development of new technologies leads to diminishing of the
past finding.
