PHA-Exchange> Re posting "Whose data? 'Stealing' from the poor"

[Chee-khoon Chan]

Dear Colleagues,

Is research sometimes used by the establishment as a delaying tactic --  
insisting on the need to “dot the i’s and to cross the t’s” ?  Are we 
knowingly or unknowingly being drawn into this game?  Should we begin to 
address the question of what is “good enough research”?  On which basis to 
launch initiatives, with provisions for iterative reassessments to finetune 
our strategies as we go along?

CK Chan
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>From: "claudio" <aviva at netnam.vn>
>To: "pha-exch" <pha-exchange at kabissa.org>
>Subject: PHA-Exchange> Re posting "Whose data? 'Stealing' from the poor"
>Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:23:39 +0700
>
>From: "FIVDB" <fivdbdhk at citechco.net>
>
> > Lets remember the proverb once again:
> > 'To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism;
> > To steal from many is RESEARCH !'
> >
> > Isn't it?
> > Another important issue I would like to raise is: most of the
> > leading  academics, economist, researchers are doing the same thing for 
>a
> > long time, because they believe this is their right  (!), i.e.  to 
>capture
>poverty
> > data (eventually all types of data)... without de-briefing or sharig the
> > analyzed data/outputs/findings with the  kind respondents. Sometimes 
>data
>collectors completely forget/ignore that they are dealing
> > with human beings who are not bound to provide info to a complete 
>stranger
> > with a very different mind set!
> >
>We should raise our voices in proper fora
> > about this and our own professional research ethics.
>
>
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