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How does background assumptions, beliefs, and paradigms, help and hinder knowledge creation? Provide examples in which these models lead to troublesome findings or questionable theories.

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A discussion of background assumptions and beliefs in the context of knowledge creation.

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The background assumptions lead to stereotyping a person and this is basically help to start dealing with the person or we can say to begin interaction with the person but after that it begun to hinder about attribution of person/ situations. They stop us to understand about the actual variables that are playing to influence the ...

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