My main advice when advising others on how best to advance their learning and understanding, particularly in a field so complex as social work: question everything.
In the original (upper-level) CREATE course, the class studied, sequentially, a series of papers published by a single lab that tracked the development of understanding in a particular field of scientific inquiry (e.g., how embryonic retinal axons find their targets in the brain; how planaria maintain positional information during regeneration).
Transforming this deluge of data to information and knowledge will increase our understanding in all fields of genetics including evolution, ecology, domestication and breeding.
They understand something fairly basic about a process or something earlier in the understanding of a field.
Our aim in this work is to allow a rapid differentation between known relationships (i.e. those which a scientist with a reasonable understanding of the literature in a field could be expected to already know), and unknown relationships (those which could not be found in literature closely associated with a field, or not part of the 'art' of the field).
Panels of similarly trained experts (who possess a general understanding in the field of interest) provide effective and reliable utilization of a small sample from a limited number of experts in a field of study to develop reliable criteria that inform judgment and support effective decision-making.
Far from a theoretical understanding in this field, the existing body of knowledge essentially consists of empirical correlations between material and mental states.
Overall, this meeting generated stimulating discussions and a deeper understanding in this field.
Don't need to know every little bit, but a general understanding in that field can be immensely helpful.
This basic research advances our understanding in a broad array of fields, and serves as the basis for more advanced research and development, yielding great benefit to society.
