Why Research?

Why do we conduct research?

• To improve practice
• Curiosity
• To improve theory
• To detect and measure change- like measuring movement; the only way we can know something moved is by comparing it to a previous measurement.
• Assignment (See David Merrill)
• Necessity (Swine Flu, the Plague, Pres. Kennedy- ten years to the moon)

• A way to find truth (see Elder Scott's talk)