But Dickie is nevertheless onto something crucial to the degree he urges that a difference in purpose need not imply a relevant difference in attention.
Thus, the difference in purpose of task and goal interdependence (c.f. van der Vegt and van de Vliert, 2002), may explain the differential effect of task and goal interdependence on teachers' engagement in social and individual learning activities.
Another important factor that accounts for some of the differences between these two groups is their difference in purpose.
Nevertheless, the basic differences in purpose and reward can still be useful for comparative analysis.
We conclude that paradigm shifts in soil mapping and classification can be better explained by not only their correlation to historical improvements in scientific understanding, but also by differences in purpose for mapping, and due to advancements in geographic technology.
Differences in purpose, content, ownership and timing of delivery of a diary suggest there is a need to consider whether the same intervention meets the needs of both groups of stakeholders.
Despite the difference in the purposes of the neuromuscular exercise training programs [ 35, 36], these findings from healthy and OA cohorts suggest that neuromuscular training has potential to reduce frontal plane knee moments.
Our findings show that, despite differences in design and purposes, content, lay-out, length and initial target population of the three questionnaires, none appeared to be obviously better than the others, both when examining their characteristics and the patients' assessments.
This marked difference could partly be explained by difference in study purpose and inclusion criteria.
Such disciplinary differences in research purposes and methods have sometimes created different understandings and placed varying levels of attention on the issue of population description.
