One of the things I've ended up concluding from the recent workshop about RCTs- Design, Analysis and Reporting at Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi is that the ultimate aim of research after all is to uncover pieces of truth.
Truth - It is precious because it is scarce. It is scarce probably because of our unfailing commitment to cover up things, because of our innate preference for the opaqueness of lies over the transparency of truth, because of that onion in us. The world is like an onion - I write with no exceptions to myself. We all are layery beings, there are layers after layers of pretense and falsehood, sometimes reflecting truth in varied proportions - people, places and situations are either lionised or demonised.
Our statistics from numerous surveys are so full of puzzles and contrasts. Sometimes I really wonder, especially after reading the paper by Deaton and Dreze about food and nutrition trends in India - probably one of the reasons that our researchers after doing a hell lot of analysis and applying statistical tool after tool, end up with puzzles and limbos is that the data in their hand COULD have all been COOKED up by someone down there. Only if truth could be ubiquitous...
Truth - It is precious because it is scarce. It is scarce probably because of our unfailing commitment to cover up things, because of our innate preference for the opaqueness of lies over the transparency of truth, because of that onion in us. The world is like an onion - I write with no exceptions to myself. We all are layery beings, there are layers after layers of pretense and falsehood, sometimes reflecting truth in varied proportions - people, places and situations are either lionised or demonised.
Our statistics from numerous surveys are so full of puzzles and contrasts. Sometimes I really wonder, especially after reading the paper by Deaton and Dreze about food and nutrition trends in India - probably one of the reasons that our researchers after doing a hell lot of analysis and applying statistical tool after tool, end up with puzzles and limbos is that the data in their hand COULD have all been COOKED up by someone down there. Only if truth could be ubiquitous...
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| Learning to uncover the truth through RCTs :P |
