For example, if social relations are such that men disproportionately hold the most significant positions of social and cognitive authority within scientific communities, the direction of research as well as the choice of methods and metaphysical assumptions underlying research may disproportionately reflect men's experiences and perspectives.
In this qualitative study, physiotherapists' assumptions underlying research interventions are in focus.
The underlying research has been disputed.
A fundamental assumption underlying twin research, the equal environments assumption, is also explained and illustrated.
Articulating and documenting the use of theory, instrumentation and research design and the assumptions underlying physiotherapy research interventions are important.
We critically describe the literature in terms of its theoretical underpinnings, definitions of 'evidence', methods, and underlying assumptions of research in the field, and aim to illuminate the EBP discourse by comparison with approaches from other fields.
Next, the research objective, underlying environmental assumptions, and the proposed visualization method are presented in detail.
In this Graduate seminar we will discuss the nature, politics and basic assumptions underlying qualitative research.
As described in the preceding section, the assumptions underlying our research design can be tested by examining whether baseline covariates exhibit discontinuous changes at the ten percent cutoff.
In addition to being credible on a priori grounds, the assumptions underlying the research design can be tested by examining baseline covariates and examining whether they "trend smoothly" through the ten percent cutoff (Lee, 2008; Imbens and Lemieux, 2008) and whether the distribution of class rank is discontinuous at the ten percent cutoff.
This lack of flexibility is partly due to the assumptions underlying quantitative research and partly a result of the proliferation of GCP rules and IRB requirements, which are perhaps appropriate for clinical data collection but less so when applied to qualitative behavioural studies.
