What advantages does research offer to the decision-maker over seat-of-the-pants decision making? Doing the research would give a person a well-rounded view of any topic. With research you should be able to see both what the advantages are as well as the disadvantages. Research provides prior experiences and accumulated knowledge based off of the experiments that were probably conducted. Making decisions after weighing the facts is the best practice to go with, especially in the realm of medicine. Otherwise you would be risking lives and would certainly result in a lawsuit. When my previous laptop died on me, I didn’t buy the first laptop that came up in my Google search. I perused several sites and compared not only the features but the prices as well. After limiting my selection to a smaller number, I looked at the customer reviews as well to get a sense of the experiences that other people had with the laptops I was considering. By doing my research I was a...
What surprises have you encountered specific to your research question? Hands down, the most surprising fact I encountered was how slow it was communicating with AAC devices and specifically with BCIs. Prior to this research, I would see Stephen Hawking on TV interviews, talk shows, and snippets of his “live” lectures. What I didn’t realize that his “live” speeches were absolutely pre-meditated and scripted. The questions were provided beforehand to give him ample time to compose an answer and have that ready to go when he pressed the button on his system. This was probably the case even during “live” tapings, where the interviewer would ask a question and Hawking would have a response ready to go. With the magic of editing sometimes, it would appear as if Hawking and the interviewer were having a normal conversation in real time. One article I read said that in the beginning, Hawking’s selection rate was 15 words per minute (Medeiros, 2015) ,...