A research for… the obvious

A research for… the obvious

Recently the results of a research during which a number of babies was examined by psychologists claimed that the babies cry not only when they need something, but also because they want … attention. How original! Every grown-up and even many children know that babies many times cry in order to gain attention. In addition, according to the results of the research, babies cry more if their parents or any adult gives them too much attention.

As it is obvious from the example above, many researches and even more surveys present something that is fundamental knowledge for every logical human. Many people wonder what the purpose of doing a research on the obvious is. They believe that it is worthless. Even the people who hold that doing a research is usually useful doubt about the research mentioned above.

On the other hand, there are those who reckon that any research done in scientifically correct way is useful to our society. They support that many so called “obvious” researches have given unexpected results and have reversed theories that have been followed for many centuries.

Although, when I read about this research on babies I thought that this is ridiculous, now if I was asked I would support the idea of doing even such an “obvious” research provided that it follows all the scientific criteria and that it will, also, examine other things apart from the reason why babies cry!

All in all, even though many people will disagree in my opinion is that a scientific research is always something useful and even when it has expected results it just verifies what we already believed…