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Advantages of research over reasoning or experience

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Discuss the phenomenon that research has more advantages than reasoning and experience in solving human problems. Includes Scholarly reference in APA format and a quote, cited from this reference in the discussion.

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Explanation of the advantages of scientific reseach over anecdotal evidence, or personal reasoning and experience

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Your posting did not indicate the formatting protocol that you are instructed to use for this assignment. APA and MLA formatting, for instance, require various word choices, and differ in the format for the citations for the references that you might use to support your reasoning. If these are not part of your assignment requirements, please disregard. Otherwise, please check your final document to be sure you follow the formatting protocol you are supposed to use.

Reasoning and experience are the two methods that nearly all humans use to figure out how the world works, or to determine cause and effect in events that occur. This intuition is also referred to as in research as "anecdotal evidence," which means someone's personal experience.

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