The Conduct of Inquiry¶

Kaplan, A. (1964). The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science. Chandler Publishing.

Type: Book
Intellectual base: Review or monograph
Year: 1964
Link: https://casbs.stanford.edu/conduct-inquiry-methodology-behavioral-science
Cited from: cognitive_science

Cited by¶

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes¶

Law of the Instrument
- Academic research: methodological monoculture, where a researcher's primary method (regression, ethnography, RCT, formal model) becomes the lens through which all problems are read, foregrounding method-amenable problems and dismissing others as out of scope.
  This sourceCoins 'the law of the instrument' ('Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding') and observes that a scientist 'formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled' — the canonical statement of method/tool shaping which problems are perceived, supporting the academic-methodology, consulting-framework, and pedagogy instances.

Mechanisms¶

Access/Occlusion Matrix
- The classic misuse is the streetlight effect
  This sourceDescribes the drunkard’s-search principle: inquiry is distorted when it looks where observation is easiest rather than where the object is likely to be.
Domain Restriction
- The classic misuse is the streetlight effect
  This sourceWarns against searching only where inquiry is easiest and most illuminated rather than where the answer is likely to be found.

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